My running year in review

This week we’re tallying up our exercising numbers and evaluating the results – call it a yearly review of our athletic performance. Why is it necessary to evaluate ourselves? What is the significance of the total numbers I’ve run every month? How much higher do I value a larger numbered month compared to a month with a rather dismal showing? Well, my peeps, it puts the truth bare before me, and I’m able to contemplate the past year without any excuses at hand.

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I’ve run every month of 2014 – much better than last year, where there was a black hole in the spring, hard to recover from that vacuum… And that makes me wonder about spring because my numbers this year were low for those months – must be something in the air? My finest month happens to coincide with the starting of MoveGirlGO, with the best numbers and attitude. The start of a new adventure spurred me on to more consecutive runs. Thanks, y’all! My last sad month was August, 31 days I’ve never been fond of — it’s the month where in the past I’ve cut off all my hair myself—twice, been cheated on and summarily dumped, I was gonna list more but that nonsense can stay locked up. Suffice it to say the eighth month can lump it, and I’m happy I ran at all.

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What I’ve learned is that I need to inject more fun into my months, schedule some races so I have running goals, anxiety be damned. When next I tally up my running totals I want there to be more than just numbers plotted on a graph – I want accomplished events and mileages noted there too. I look at my sad months and I can’t remember my excuses, all I see is a number that doesn’t make me happy. Going forward, it’ll be me slaying excuses, no holds barred.

[Img.Src: Woman Training, Woman on Beach]

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