Yikes... who knew I could go from being such a great blogger, to the the WORST?!? So here we are over a year since my last post. No update on the Philadelphia Half or of the money I raised. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Well, let's try and change that.
It seems that most people become motivated at the beginning of the year, you know with all their resolutions and such, but for me, I always get motivated at the end. Not sure what it is about Fall, but it just lights a fire under my butt.
Before starting with what is new, let's discuss what is old and should have been written about months ago...
The Philadelphia Half-Marathon was a success!!! Well in terms of raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (thank you for those who donated), not so much on the race. You see, I probably did not blog about my training because there wasn't much training being done. I was a slacker to say the least, and I paid for it after the run. I was so sore for days, I couldn't even run the Turkey Trot four days later. Luckily I promised my dad ahead of time I would walk it with him since it was his first time. After that, I still didn't run much, but I did join a gym in March... not that that means I became a gym rat or anything, but at least it is something right?
Then in May my roommates and I participate in the Buffalo Marathon again. I say "marathon" because in January when I registered, I signed up for the marathon thinking I would spend the time to train for it... I was wrong. So really we participated in the Buffalo Half-Marathon, which we walked and when you do it in a group you really don't notice how long it's taking you. The positives are that (1) we finished (2) we were not sore the next day (3) I looked like I had a sweet marathon time, until they updated the results and said I only completed the half.
Other than that I have mainly used kickball as my excuse for a workout. Though I did play on two softball teams this summer as well as my kickball team and as summer started winding down I promised my girlfriend from college I would run a half with her in October so that I would get moving again... and then three days later, I sprained my ankle BIG TIME. I was on crutches, had to get x-rays, couldn't run for almost eight weeks. We're talking bad sprain. So needless to say, you can't train for a half-marathon in two weeks (at least not when you have sat on your butt for the eight weeks leading up to it), so I could not participate.
And now here we are. I'm sure there were things I missed in there, namely episodes at the gym with embarrassing exercises, but we'll save those for another day.
Hopefully my readers are still out there after this hiatus, but in case you're not, I'll make sure to post the link all over the place so that you're forced back :)
