The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The BAD  and the UGLY- One of the biggest challenges I have is doing anything during the week.  A lot of people have Sunday as their "rest" day.  Me? It's mondays.  I hate mondays.   Without fail work sucks me in and by the time I get home I just want to faceplant (can you tell this is my new favorite word?) in my bed.  It's even MORE challenging in the winter because I do not like exercising in the dark.  Nooooo.  My neighborhood has only a few street lights and a lot of older people that I'm convinced are out to hit me or at the least make me dive for a ditch.   Let's face it - winter sucks. Wah!  However if I'm ever going to make it to that 13.1 trail run alive I need to not wuss out during the winter.   I was doing ok until the snow.  The snow really threw me for a loop.  Slippery conditions and darkness = ...wait for it...yes you know....FACEPLANT.   I probably should talk to someone about this faceplant obsession.   So this is the part I think everyone faces when they are trying to either start exercising or step up their game.  EXCUSES.  Yes people that's what I'm talkin about.   AND guess what I'm southern which means I can excuse it up with the best of them.   My grandmother use to refer to my mother as a widow after my father died....even though Daddy was married to someone else at the time of his death.  Denial and excuses, we southerners wrote the book.

THE GOOD - I've been focusing on taking away the excuses.  So Kelly the Magnificant helps a lot as when you pay somebody for a service it's good if you actually show up.  Kelly is so cool I rather look forward to those sessions.  But as wonderful as he is, he can't be there every day.  Bad weather excuse? Well I've got options now so that's out.   Tired - aren't we all? That's out.  No time?  Well I got time to write this blog so that's out.  General laziness - hmm.....this one continues to fight.....

Rome wasn't built in a day....MARCH ON.....September and that half-marathon will be here before I know it....

I leave you with a pic from the 1st trail race.....  Although not my best look, definitely better than most of them I've seen in the past... Less zombie more stepping up....