Monthly February Recap

February Mileage: 155
Yearly Mileage: 275

For the most part February turned out to be a great month of getting back to my LSD (long slow distance) roots (nothing like before though). I really don't have much to add. Nothing exciting or crazy happened, which can be a good thing and bad. My only concern is my left foot. It is giving me problems again and I honestly do not know what to do. I can't just stop running, it's in my DNA!!! I've literary have been running half of my life. I've actually signed up for a race River Gorge 10.2 mile trail run. I am going to see how I do before I sign up for another one. For some reason I just can't get excited for races like I was a year ago, and even my blogging I can't get excited for it either. I formed this blog to hopefully inspire people but I can't even inspire myself. I feel like I have a lot on my plate coming up with physical therapy school starting that it just throws me off of other goals in life. My mind is telling me I need to get through school before I can focus on anything else. However, I so want to run a 50 miler and even greater race, but I just can't seem to get out and put the extra miles in. So I'm taking it day by day in hopes that something will fire me up. On a good note my mileage is up from last month so there is a little flame that has started to burn.

January Recap
Total Miles: 120 Miles

This month consisted of nothing really special running wise for me. Somehow I fought off the temptation not to run and went outside to get something in. I feel like I am a repeating record when I say that I am burned out, but I feel like this month helped me get my feet wet and somewhat back into the swing of things. However, the last week in January I only got 2 days of running in because my feet issues flared up again. I have taken steps in correcting it and hopefully it will do some good and get me out on the trail more often.

I have been doing a lot of reading on plant based diet and nutrition and am greatly enjoying learning about the topic. I have invested in a Vitamix blender and can say that I am in love with the thing. I have just started to add more greens to my diet (Kale and Spinach) that was basically non existent before. It is too early to tell how much better I am feel because I have basically just started adding greens on a larger scale. Hopefully next months recap or just some random blog I can touch light on it.

Also, I have a race in mind that I am looking at training for. This excites me greatly because I haven't ran a race since October (StumpJump) and I wasn't even in shape for that. It's a 50K that I am looking at and will have more details on the race later.

First blog of the year!!

First off I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years. I've basically took the whole month of December off due to just being plain burnt out on running and blogging. All I really did was work and look at other people's blogs of their running experiences and be jealous. However, I just couldn't put my running shoes on and take a run on the trails (turning winter also does not help). I had also been having some foot issues, but nothing serious just more of a nuisance. It has since subsided and this past week I actually got out and ran and somehow enjoyed it. I had a lot of ups and downs this past year in running. The first half of 2012 was great for me running wise and then once I started apply to physical therapy school and stressing on that it just took a toll on me. Now it's a new year and it's time to start fresh.

I'm not sure if I will be writing a weekly mileage this year because it is almost a nuisance to me because I feel it gets very repetitive. Plus, I will be a whole lot more busy starting this summer due to Physical Therapy School and I honestly don't know how my training will go and be balanced with school. So I really don't have any races planned because I'm not sure what my schedule will look like. However, I will still keep up with my mileage and write a monthly overview and race reports. I feel like that will be a whole lot better for me. Also I know not many people look at this blog so I'm sure no one will care lol. So new year new me right? Let's see how this year goes!! Happy Trails!