Well it happened again, I sidetracked myself once again. I doubt that many people will see this blog since its been so long. Its not how many times your thrown off the horse its getting back on to ride again...or something like that. Basically my life the past few weeks has consisted of working two jobs, and getting my school situation figured out. After some thought I ended up going to the community college near me for this semester in order to get some credits, raise my gpa and hopefully build a springboard with which I can get into another school that provides me with some good opportunities. As for running, well I've had a lot of day 1's lately but not many day 2's and definitely no day 3's. That is until today. I started back with a real plan and hope that this carries me towards my goals of getting back to the top of the NCAA. There is a saying that you don't appreciate what you have until it is gone. Well for me that is abundantly true. I did not appreciate the gift that I was given to be able to run well until I had lost the team I ran for, and was able to step away from the sport and realize what I truly love about it. What I love about running is the competition against myself. There aren't many other sports where at the end of the competition the only person you can criticize or blame is yourself, and that's what I love about running. I'm not calling this a comeback, I'm just making a commitment to run this week, and when I get to the end of this week hopefully I can say that I'll run next week. Overall I just want this to lead to me getting as fit as possible and trying to bring myself back into competitive racing shape and hopefully run for another school at the top of the NCAA.
So after that long rant about life and running, I guess I'll let you know how the actual running went. I ran on Saturday and Sunday with Brendan Fennell, a former American University and Pearl River High School runner who I've trained with the past few years off and on. We went 6miles the first day only averaging 7:15 a mile but the last few miles were under 7. Today went 4miles in 30minutes easy on the roads. This snow isn't the best for starting back running but I've got to play the hand I'm dealt. Anyways, thanks for reading if your reading, and hopefully I'll be back next week.
