Sunday, November 30, 2014
It has been a While - Trying to Get Back
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It has been a while since I have posted anything on my blog. Ironically my blog is titled runin' my life, but my life has been running me. At least for the last few months. I chose to pull back while I tried to recenter myself.
This has been a really tough year. Turns out to be not at all what I planned at the beginning of the year, as we now close in on the end of the year. I am excited to put it behind me and also weirdly grateful for the challenges and chaos it brought. That is why I love this song. I feel like women sometimes spend so much time trying to make sure everyone else is happy, making sure everyone likes us...we rarely ask do I like me?
After this year of tough runs and bad races, missed goals, lost family members, illness, and new responsibilities I think I realized somewhere in there I have to like me. Even though I have not been blogging I have been running and I have been doing my strength training. For a while I wasn't doing it with a happy heart, more like checking a box. I guess that is where I am grateful that running and fitness became a habit, so I could at least get it done, because that is what I do; until I could do it because I wanted to do it.
Knock on wood I think that is where I am finally. I have been enjoying my exercise lately. Wanting to do it, getting up happily instead of begrudgingly. I have made some decisions about next year. No big distance races. I am going to focus on 5Ks and 10Ks with my husband, I enjoy some distance running but I will do that on my own, for myself when I feel like it, not because a race plan is breathing down my neck. For me it is time to get back to the basics of fun running.
I also hope to get back to blogging about the crazy things a peri-menopausal, way less than perfect, 45 year old nonathletic geek, runs into on an imperfect journey to stay healthy despite a genetic minefield! Here is hoping your journey has been smoother than mine and to finding the fun and the humor is liking ourselves.
I am still grateful for many things, not the least of which is waking up everyday a little worse for the wear and wiser!
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I think it's awesome that you can look back on a year that was maybe difficult and not perhaps what you had planned and still feel that you learned and are stronger for it! Hope the coming year is a little easier and still a year of discovery at the same time!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brian. Me too!
DeleteI'm sorry it was a tough year but I hope next year will be better! And that's great that you're working on getting back to running for fun. I think that everyone needs the re-centering and re-prioritizing at times.
ReplyDeleteYes we do. Thanks Chaitali. You are doing great I got to catch up on your blog!!
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