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....