Epic Fail......for awhile, but I am back at it.

I was really "Gung Ho" about everything in my last post.

Ready to go! No one could stop me!

.......Except myself :(


After all that planning, one bad day(extremely bad night really) sent me crashing back into old (bad)habits and off my plan.


So, don't tell my other self this, but I quietly started a new plan. And guess what, I'm sticking to it.


I decided that one of the things that I have really missed is my regular running. We lived in an area for 2 years that was not very conducive to running, and the gym was 30 minutes away, so most days I could come up with a hundred excuses not to run, and did.

You see, I never ran as a kid, or in high school, or in college. I started running when I was 38. Very slowly obviously. The year I turned 40 I completed 12 half marathons, one a month, all over the country. It was a huge win for me after my divorce. It was my way of telling myself "I had this". I still have all those shirts and bibs and medals and lots more.

Mine are on the left, the boys are on the right(because I sometimes make them run with me).

But this past year, I've only run a couple 5k's, and some months I didn't run a single mile.

So two weeks ago I programmed my trusty Nike Running app(it has tracked all my miles all these years and I love it) to coach me for a 10k coming up in November. Ask anyone, Nike coaching for anything is not exactly a Couch to 5k. They come out of the gate serious. But so far......

I am rocking it!!!

I've also cut my portions by about a 1/3 and have at least one fresh smoothie a day in place of a meal(because I am terrible at getting my fruits and veggies in otherwise).

I decided one little change at a time is how I am going to accomplish this. Every time I try to make 50 big sweeping changes at the start of a week or the start of a month. I fail. So this time I am concentrating on one day and one decision at a time. Sometimes I make the right ones and sometimes I don't, and I'm trying really hard not to beat myself up when that happens.

Wish me luck, again. I'm off for my scheduled 4 mile run today. I got this!