A New Day

It's been a long while since I've updated this blog, turns out the holidays were busier than I thought they would be! My partner in crime was on holidays for three...count 'em THREE weeks from the Navy and was here on the mainland for all of them! How lucky am I?!  Needless to say, blogging, running, eating healthy, normal, day-to-day boring stuff was thrown out the window; cue sleeping in, drinking wine, eating cake and grease-coated everything; I love my life! 

We did attempt a run together the third day he was here, however, drinking two cups of coffee and having half a bottle of water before starting wasn't the smartest idea I've ever had.  We were at the track in New Westminster, no toilet in sight, it was cold and crisp.  I had to blow my nose but had no Kleenex, so I resorted to sniffing so hard my brain had phlegm.  I started to run, one lap done, great, good, feeling go- wait a sec...with each step I took my bladder jiggled a little...then a little more...then a lot. I was about to burst, after 3 laps of slow running, I had already been lapped at least a dozen times by my significant other...let's call him Mr. X.  Mr. X runs like the wind, he'll never admit it, he's the most humble person I know. I stopped, and then my IPod died.  No music, full bladder, runny nose, I got PISSED! I walked fast, and with conviction, my face was contorted like a possessed Linda Blair from the Exorcist, I swear my voice was a bit raspy like her's too....Mr. X could see me a mile away, he stopped, put his arm around my shoulder and took me to a washroom, bless his heart.  That was the end of that outing...and the first and last run of the three weeks he was here. Le sigh.

However, with a new year comes new resolutions.  I still have to cross the half marathon off my list, and since I paid the registration fee last year, that counts as an OLD resolution, but it still stands none the less.  I'm excited...I swear!  So today was the first time since Mr. X came...and left that I've actually done any form of exercise.  I ran, but I cheated, one word: treadmill.  Still counts doesn't it?  It doesn't, I know, I cheated myself, but that's ok, because running on the treadmill is better than not running at all.  I'm off track, back to resolutions; this year I have decided a few things, they are as follows:

1) Be nicer to Mr. X...STOP BEING A SPAZ
2) Finish some pre-req courses and get my ass back into school!
3) Run three days a week, without fail, EVERY week. I've finally realized that since I'm not made out of sugar, I will not melt in the rain.
4) In conjunction with running, weight training is a must, thank goodness I actually like weights!

I think today's treadmill reunion was a good thing, tomorrow, I will make it better, always remember: no matter how small the activity, it's always a baby step to something bigger.  I leave you tonight with a quote that sums it all up:

"This is the beginning of a new day.  You have been given this day to use as you will.  You can waste it or use it for good.  What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.  When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever; in it's place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." -unknown-