Running Update

Meh. My updates on here remain sporadic, but I am trying. Sadly, I wish my running has been as frequent as my blog posts...

The heat wave in Chicagoland persists, and training for a marathon has become downright miserable. Unfortunately, that means that I have been lazy relaxed when it comes to my milage. After slogging through a very uncomfortable 12 miler last weekend, I let a whole week lapse between my long run and the half marathon I ran Saturday. Additionally, last week, I completely, horribly, unbelievably fell off the healthy eating train and indulged in my inner fat kid. We are talking entire bags of chips, double-stuff oreos, and all the cheeseburgers and fries my tummy could handle.

Although, in my defense, the chips and oreos came about on Friday when I decided that I was going to use the half marathon on Saturday as the "re-set" button to my diet. I also seem to have tweaked my IT band a bit during my race, so I really need to get back to running and cross-training appropriately along with paying attention to my diet.

Today will be the wrong day for all of this new "resolve" as I already skipped out on running in the AM and I am going to Monthly Dinner Club with the girls at a place known for their hamburgers.... eeeep! Let's see how tomorrow goes.

xoxo,
E