May 5

So far so good.   Last week's "training"report:

Weds- 2.5 miles, speed intervals.  
Thursday- walking day!  Three block walk to enjoy the flowering trees on Somerton, waked ivy to ballet, and walked the track with Melinda.
Friday-  my first 5 miler!  Boring, but doable. I have to tell you, I didn't even look at the time, though based on my speed it should have taken around 50 minutes.
 For the first two miles I thought of nothing but stopping, but after mile three I kind of forgot I was running and just got intomthemold episode of Greys anatomy I was watching.  I didn't feel tired until about 2 pm...
Saturday-- got my exercise loading and unloading bins from the van for the baby bargain bonanza in the morning. And  rehearsing for a few hours.  And, my mom and I walked a mile at Lakewood Park. Had designs on a walk through the cultural gardens, too, but tired children meant time close to home instead.
Today-- let's just call it an active rest day, ok?  Concert tonight, wandering the beach today.  A fair amounts of sitting and standing and soaking up the sun.  Back to business at the gym tomorrow.

27 days!

May 1

I could launch into a litany of excuses.

I was tired/busy/not inspired to write because [insert standard excuses here].

Ok.

Moving on.

It's May and the sun has come out and the flowers are blooming and the evenings linger, sumptuous and brimming with the green of new life.

I'm inspired again.

Perhaps overly so.  I've bought paint in 5 colors over the past week.  I've signed up for a 5K. I've got this little girl who is turning 3 in a matter of days.  Jack's soccer schedule adds two more events per week to schedule in.  I have both a concert and a resale this weekend.  The school year is hurtling towards a close, crowded with meetings and much to fit in 4 short weeks.

Life is full indeed and a part of me thinks that just making it through these next 30 days in one piece may be challenge enough.

So for this month I will acknowledge that an every-single-day goal just might not be feasible.

And that to get everything done I will probably need to multi-task.  In a serious way.

With that in mind my challenge this month will be to train, purposely, towards the goal of not embarrassing myself too badly in the 5K Becca and I are running on June 2nd.

This probably won't entail running every day but it might include exercise of some sort every day, and at the very least following a structured workout schedule and plan of increasing distances and speed drills.

It's worth a shot, right?

I'm off to a decent start, with 2.5 miles of speed intervals under my belt this morning.  Friday may be a challenge as my distance days in May are supposed to be at least 5 miles...

Here's to minimal embarassment!  And surviving May!

I promise to take time to smell the flowers....