Today was insane. I'll spare you the details. Let's just say I was supposed to meet my friend Shirley this morning for a run in Collinsville, then coffee afterwards at Lasalle market. I had been looking forward to it all weekend. Had some issues with my car, planned to have Shirley meet me at home instead so we could run around here (since I had to drop my car off - we do have 2 other cars I "could" have driven to Collinsville but they are both manual and I have yet to learn to drive manual... pathetic, I know!). Ended up having to cancel our run because of the car issues and having to take the car in, and Bill's car stalling on the way to Pep Boys (he was following me over so he could take me home after I dropped off my car) - can you believe HIS car stalled on the way over!!! OK so I'm not exactly sparing you the details. I could write a mini novel about our car situation today. There's more to the story, amazingly, but I'll stop now. Totally crazy morning and I do believe it was all because I had to cancel my run with Shirley in the first place - my day would have still been crazy, but at least I would have gotten my run in! Oh well! The moral of this story is my day is always happier when it begins with a run, and things that are normally really crazy are less crazy when I've gotten a run in!!
Today I began a new training session. Another long story. In short, the plan I found before after searching for a while (and one I bought off the internet) - it was not the right plan for me. WAY too intense and I know I would have gotten burnt out. I found another plan that I believe will help me achieve my 4 hour marathon or at least get me closer to achieving it, without making me a crazy person. I'm excited to start. I'm going over the plan with some friends from my running club who are going to tweak it for me so it's absolutely perfect and tailored to my needs.
I did end up running this evening - a quick 3 miles. Today is the first day of my official training (this plan is an 18 week plan - 2 weeks ago I started a 20 week plan). I'm excited for the challenge.
I have to go take a Claritan now - the pollen was awful tonight!!!
Before I go I have to tell you the wierdest thing about the car situation - the whole reason we took my car in was because my husband noticed grease all over the bottom of the driver door - he figured there was something wrong with the axle, or something like that (I'm not too good with cars, but it sounded serious). He noticed this on Saturday after we had driven 2 hours to Rhode Island, and he didn't want me driving it yesterday at all. Well, when we went to pick it up the guy at Pep Boys said he couldn't find anything wrong with it - he thinks I may have run over a pile of grease. So all that craziness for NOTHING lol!!
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