Erased!

Oy Technology!

I was logging all my runs on mapmyrun.com.... and I pressed a wrong button, and most of my entries were deleted :( Soooo bummed... hopefully I have them written on a calendar at work by hand and most will be there... :)

So took a few days off running... had to rebuild my closet over the weekend, and reorganize my life because the running is only going to increase, and I need to get organized from the inside out... oh right, and my whole rack that was holding my clothes and all kinds of other things like shoes and towels, completely busted.

Wow - okay - not so incredibly hard in the end, but boy did I ever use up all the trials and all the errors ... and found myself after about 11 hours of physical labor on Saturday saying "I really think it's okay right now not to do the long run that was scheduled for today "....... same thing for Sunday... Monday came, and I was exhausted and still totally sore.. plus, I'm having this issue with my right arm/hand having pins & needles, so holding anything with it right now is randomly uncomfortable. Get the whole picture here? I got partially lazy and made partial excuses - which equaled no running. Life is short, forgiving thyself is key.

Today was the get back on track day... started with work, then a 3.5 mile run at lunch in 33.50 :) Then I had a meeting with the nutritionist Keri Ganz... she was wonderful (and I'll be writing down all my food for a few weeks to get a true sense - but she gave me some good initial suggestions) then off to my first Team RUN MS meeting for the marathon!!! It was very inspiring personally for me, because of the cause of course - but also because there are so many others like me~~~~~ hahaha first-timers!!! VIVA LA FIRST-TIMER! Very very cool that others are crazy like me to just take on this incredible challenge...

Got some very cool info from our coach Jonathan... and kind of set my mind at ease...then scared the pants off me a little! So basically - based on the fact that I'm doing the 1/2 marathon end of July - I have to increase my total miles by 10% every week for the next three weeks .... WOW. Ok. :) That's 10% longer on the long runs AND the short runs.... okay. I can do this.... I can do this.... I can do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right?

I know it will change my life, and I'm ready for the change. I've been ready for way too long now. One day at a time, one run at a time.... one marathon at a time :)

Feeling the blessings and sending the Love
Curly
xoxo