In the latter part of last year I had a bit of an "Aha!" moment. My jobs were taking up A LOT of my time and energy and I just couldn't fathom spending bundles of time training on top of work so I decided I would move away from the longer distance stuff and drop right down to 5K.
I've decided that I want to break my PR for the distance. Honestly, I don't know if it's physically possible for me to do it (the body I had when I got that time is a far cry from the body I will be trying with now), but I'm going to give it a shot.
It doesn't take a genius to figure it out, but I should probably be running if I want to achieve anything running-wise, huh? Well this has been easier said than done in the last few weeks. Christmas holidays are NUTS for pet sitters and post-holidays have found me some new challenges professionally (I'll save that for another post) that have taken up almost every spare second I have so the last month and a half or so has seen sporadic running, at best.
Unfortunately when I get busy like that food finds me in a BIG way and that meant tracking down my fat pants for a week. Last week's fasting helped (no, I do not condone fasting, but sometimes life hands you stress & anxiety that takes away any semblance of an appetite... I didn't know that was possible for me lol), but I've done some good work this week to reverse the effects of the fast ;) Did you know that McDonald's chocolate milkshakes are quite delicious? I wish I hadn't found that out.
Next week should be the return of "normal" to my life and I can get back to some awesome running! Beth will probably be nagging me for some food logs too.
