Yoga Pants Life

I wrote a followup post to yesterday’s first-world-problem temper tantrum…but it spiraled into something I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post…at least not yet (if there is one thing I learned yesterday, it’s that the interwebs truly never forget.) Don’t worry – all is well! (because I’m sure that two readers were really on the edge of their seats for an update!)

The good news is that things are working much better today (shocking, considering how little sleep I’m running on right now) and I seem to be up and running. I would like to customize the site eventually, but it’s not a high priority for me right now (and, like, nobody really knows about the blog yet anyway.)

I’ve been in kind of a slump the last few weeks and I feel like I’m slowly coming out of it. I have 364 more days until I’m on the wrong side of 35, so I’m pretty pleased about that (birthdays really suck at this age.) I also went shopping this weekend and finally got some clothes that fit, aren’t falling apart, I can wear to work or at home and that also seems to have helped. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy any new yoga pants, but I did buy an awesome yoga shirt that has thumb holes and everything! It’s kind of like a fancy sweatshirt and I love sweatshirts almost as much as I love yoga pants. My bank account isn’t quite as happy – especially since I’m trying to save 25% of my income this year…but hopefully I don’t need to buy clothes for a long, long time.

I think the biggest thing that’s slowly starting to turn things around for me is running. I haven’t been running nearly as much as I should be lately, but that will change soon. As much as I despise daylight savings time (I’m in the minority here, I know) I am looking forward to running after work (I don’t really feel safe in the dark…either I’m alone on a dark, dark path or on a busy street where drivers aren’t paying attention. It’s bad enough during the day.) I only have three more months of ‘base training’ before the marathon training starts. I have a lot of work to do, but I know I can do it.

I ran 4.5 hilly-ish miles last night and 2.75 at lunch today. Both short distances, yet my legs felt like lead today (I only waited 15 hours between runs) It’s comforting (yet terrifying) that it will get easier and my body will start to respond better to more frequent and longer runs. Not sure about running tomorrow…I’ll see how my legs feel. If nothing else, I’m hellbent on hitting at least 10,000 steps each day, so there’s that.

In other news, how is it only Tuesday??!!