A New Year With New Goals

Although I haven't posted in quite a while, I have continued to keep the running up and have especially stepped it up for 2014. I felt I was getting a little burnt out there for the past year or so, and opening my practice two years ago has made it difficult to keep up the training that I would normally try to put into my races. At the end of 2013, after doing some soul searching, I decided to join the Fleet Feet running group. I did this for a few reasons: My bff and former training partner decided sometime in the last year that she no longer wanted to do any long distance running. I've said many times before that getting the motivation to get out and train is hard enough; getting the motivation to get out and train ALONE just wasn't happening. Not only that, but being a fairly slow runner it's very difficult to find other people who run at my pace, and even more difficult to find those who are willing to do interval runs if the need for a walk strikes. So, I figured if I join a group with a good number of participants, surely I'd find a partner or two to hold me accountable and run at my pace. Another reason for joining is, being one of the last remaining single and childless people in my group of friends, it's hard to find people to socialize with and I was hoping to maybe open up that door as well. So... in 2014 I've decided to step it up - once more - and continue to train and enter races. I never thought after that first half-marathon 9 years ago that I would STILL be running after all of these years. And that I would actually enjoy it!