I’m Back!

When I had the feeling that my latest pregnancy wasn’t going well and things started going south, I stopped running.  I bled for over a month and, subsequently, had very little energy.  Plus, if there was ANY chance that slowing down would help save the pregnancy, I wanted to do that.

So I stopped running.

Recently, I started back again, which I was NOT looking forward to because I knew it would be hard.

I have NEVER been one to have any stamina when it came to things like running any distance over 50 yards.

I could go all day with spurts here and there on the basketball course or at a track event but running longer distances, my body does not do.

So getting back into it was a killer.

I am still not there and it’s depressing.

That and the hair-falling-out thing from my hormonal Scream Machine.

(The Scream Machine was the first real roller-coaster I ever rode.  I was in high school and our youth group went to Six Flags.  I forced myself to go on it, LOVED IT, and rode it 17 more times.  I know.)

So now you understand the Scream Machine reference.  It’s what my hormones have been on but I’m HOPING they don’t want to ride 17 more times!!

I am back to Week 5 of the Podrunner First Day to 5k series and the resentment I feel for having to go BACKWARDS on this training program is a clearly-felt thing.

Tomorrow night’s assignment is the dreaded 20-minutes-straight-running thing and I don’t like that one.

I can do 8 minutes here, 10 minutes there, but 20 minutes?

Come on!

But if it doesn’t leave me a sobbing mass of sweating hormones then I will ROCK!

But I’m not really anticipating ROCKING, ya know?

I’m anticipating crying and whimpering a lot, struggling to leave my iPod in my pocket so I can’t see how much longer I’ve got, and praying for the Lord to help me through the next 19 minutes.

It’s a sad thing to behold.

Which is why I don’t run in public places.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Try not to fall off the edge of your seat.

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