Trying to reconnect with my motivations to run. Trained for most of last year to run in the Memphis St Jude marathon, only to have the race be cancelled 14 hours before start time. So I didn't have that to look forward to anymore. Caught up in what everyone else was saying, my wife and I decided to push our registration to do the full marathon in Nashville in April.
Since December, we've run maybe 10 times, and none of them have been all that stellar. Not sure what's going on, but running just really hasn't been that much of a priority. I need to do some deep thinking and figure out what my motivation is for continuing to run, and then use that to get back to it. I do like running, and I've been doing it off and on since 1980, so it's not like this was a passing fad for me. There might even be some of that in there, that I've been doing this for so long that I'm burning myself out on it. And I've never really been all that good about seeing myself for who I am and examining my deeper self. I've tried it before and to me I just end up being more confused than ever. I see all these other people around who seem to have it all together and really know themselves, and I'll just never get there.
Time to go before the real pity party starts.
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