Mike, This is Your Fault...

Ok Mike, this is for you.  You planted that damn seed in my head.  I am basically doing this for you.  Ha! 

 

Well, let's see...where do I start?  Well, I have been on a successful streak on running.  I usually get up at 05:30 am on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.  I started on this nice little streak in the first week of January with the intentions of weight loss, but things changed for me a little bit.  I followed my safe little "couch to 5K" training schedule that I have always followed and was so excited to get to the week where I finally get to 3 miles because it had been almost exactly two years when it came up.  Things didn't go well.  When I got to the day to run 3 miles, I couldn't do it.  It was a complete failure and such a let down.  I wanted to stop like after my first mile.  I was hurting and had to actually walk just about half of it.  What the hell happened?  What was the point in slowly building up to it and not be able to do it?!?  I think I hit the old wall that people talk about, so I took about a week off.  When I started up again, same thing.  It was very frustrating.  

 I started doing some digging online.  I found a good follow (for me) and I decided to change things up.  One thing I read was that running just three days a week isn't enough if you want to achieve distance goals, which I was starting to focus more on than weight loss.  Five days a week was suggested, but not only that, I had to mix it "easy runs".  Something that isn't strenuous.  So I gave it a shot, and decided to roll back on my distance.  It's working so far.  I feel a lot better.  I am going to take my time and just stay as consistent as I can.  I want to be able to eventually get to 3 miles and do it well.  Just like to master it and feel like a runner.  I think I am well on my way.  

 So now that it is March, I have been running for the majority of three months.  I have heard studies that it may take a season to really form a habit, unlike the two weeks that have be thought of in the past.  I am pretty much there.  I have no intention on stopping.  Let's see how long I can keep this up.

 

 

Moving on....We are over half way through with the kids Spring Break.  Of course Ruby and I had to work but we decided to try to watch a few movies in the evening.  A year or two ago we started having movie nights.  I wrote random movies on little pieces of paper and put them in a mason jar and we pick at random.  We started that again.  We have only watched "Signs" and "Can't Hardly Wait."  I think the kids liked them overall.  Well, I know Raymond enjoyed them.  Zoe and Lylah may be a bit harder to impress.  Lylah liked them, but I can't get a read on Zoe.  I hope they do at least appreciate that we actually do this together.  Hopefully it feels them with some good memories.  It won't always be this way.  I know I try to soak in the moments while we go through them.  

 As I mentioned to you before, I am going through The Cure's discography. It's pretty cool to hear the albums get better as you go on.  The early stuff is good, but they albums get better.  I will try to go through their entire studio albums....I'm currently on album five now?   Let's see...

- Three Imaginary Boys (done)

- Seventeen Seconds (done)

- Faith (done)

- Pornography (done)

- The Top (done)

- The Head on the Door (currently on)

I REALLY liked Faith and Pornography, which I have never really listened to before.  Can't wait to keep on going.  

Alright, I am done for the night.  Gotta hit the bed.  More later this week.