June 11, 2013 - 3 Miles; 23:57

I got home from work today and Carrie had some Relief Society people over.  I thought it would be a great time to get out of her hair and go for a quick run.  I wasn't slated to run again until tomorrow, but I thought I would get it out of the way and take a day off later in the week.  My intention was to only go for 20 minutes (10 out, 10 back), but that went out the window when I was almost to my turnaround at the 10 minute mark.  I decided to keep going to the 1.5 and turn around for a full three.  It felt really good on the way out, but not so much on the way back.  I think that was partly because I set out on a 20 minute pace and ended up going for a bit more.  I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but an extra 4 minutes is a lot when I'm this early on in my running.  I have a half marathon coming up in four and a half weeks on July 13th, and I really hope I'm going to be in shape for it.  The longest run I'm going to do before then is only 5 miles, so hopefully the mileage is going to be enough.

Running Journal

I think I want to try to start writing a running journal, and I figure the best place to do it is here.  I have been running on a 'Build to 20 Miles/Week' running plan for the last two and a half weeks.  It is a 10 week plan that goes from doing 9 miles the first week to 20 miles in the last week.  The first week I did 9 miles; last week I did 10.  I'm slated for 12 this week and am on track to get it.  My next posts are going to have my thoughts about not only the miles ran, but my thoughts during the miles.  Kind of a confessions-of-a-runner sort of thing.  Hope it works out!

I don't like going to the doctor.  Not in the little kid, it scares me, way, but in the, I have an immune system for a reason, way.

I am not good at school.  I never have been.  This doesn't reflect on my smarts or intelligence; I'm just not good at homework and keeping up with the politics of the classroom.

I can be as indecisive as you are sometimes.  And I know that you want me to make decisions and be confident in them, but I also want to make you happy and I need your opinion to make a good decision.  I appreciate and value your opinion on things and will usually swing the way you want to do things. 

I don't mind dishes in the sink.  When the sink starts to get full, I'll load the dishwasher, but I don't mind dishes in the sink.

Today is the first day I haven't seen you since our first date on September 4th.  That's a really long time.  And yet, I still can't stop thinking about you.