This week begins a final countdown of sorts. Most of the training programs you can find start 20 weeks before the big race. So this is the week to begin following an actual training schedule. Its good to have a schedule, but the summer race scene is not happening. Bloomsday was taken by a camping meeting. Sound to Narrows has been taken by a church council meeting. Sigh. Its so hard to find races that I can do! Ugh!
Getting up was difficult today, just didn't feel motivated. But the alarm went off and I managed to drag myself off to a 5 miler. Couldn't take the Garmin 'cause I had forgotten to charge it. So I don't really know what the effort was.
I was pleased to get on the scale afterwards and read 152! Yippee. Getting close to what I thought my race weight would be. Now I'm beginning to see that I may have been off by several pounds. Race weight may be closer to 145 or so. I've had to set aside most of my pants that I have bought in the last couple of years as they are simply too big and look horrible at this point. I know, poor me. But now I have to spend money not only on shoes but new pants! Sigh.
Speaking of shoes . . . I bought a new pair today. I retired one pair about a month ago but I am just now getting the replacement pair. Yay, new shoes. Now I am anxious to run tomorrow morning!
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