Crawling into the New Year (2013)

As you can tell from the gap between my posts that these feet nor my Nike's have not seen the road, the treadmill or any more mileage for that matter. Unfortunately, my positive energy and spirits were quickly caged after my last run where I felt the "Dog days being over." It fact, I was quite wrong about them being over and the truth was there were starting over. It wasn't but two days later I found myself once again a victim of the wicked illness most commonly known as a cold. This was round two since October 28th and as you might imagine being a walking, coughing, stuffing head, red nosed petri-dish of germs makes it very difficult to resume a workout routine.

Over the last few weeks I have missed the quality time I get with myself when I run. Being that it is the holidays season the air has been filled with everything merry and bright with a little bit of chaos thrown in for good measure. Being healthy and being able to pound out the very long, stressful to do lists in preparation of the holidays would have been a bonus gift I would have liked to give myself. Alas, it wasn't in the holiday cards for me; however, I was given a extra dose of inspiration to kick start 2013 from my family. Even through I haven't been able to run most of this holiday season the ones closest to me understood how important learning to run has become to me and through the gifts of winter beanie hats and ear warmer headbands I felt their underlining encouragement and support for my goal.

Although I won't be running into the New Year I will consider this crawling over the finish line of 2012 only to learn how to walk, run in 2013. Like most average non-runners when you take several weeks off from running your have to crawl before you walk or in this case run. The first order of business is to give an eviction notice to the "Mucinex family" living in my lungs. (see Mucinex commercial for reference)

The next steps are as simple as lacing up my Nike's, plugging in my Iphone complete with a new motivation play-list and starting the race slow and steady.

My running goals for 2013 are simple or one could say "baby steps." I want to re-run two of the 5k races I did in 2012. The Oklahoma City National Memorial and the Color Run are both on the list for a re-run. Not because I am trying to compete for a better time but because I had so much fun! I am hoping to make both of these and annual event. I would like to add a half marathon, running in cold weather and doubling my 2012 mileage. I was hoping to end 2012 with 200 miles under my feet but due to the Mucinex family as I referenced above that won't be happening. So next year, I would like to hit 400 miles before I run into 2014.

Wish me luck on making these goals a reality!

Happy New Me!!  Happy New Year!