Mid-Term

Okay, it's even PAST mid-terms. I'm so LAME!

I really have no good excuse for not posting. It's mostly because I haven't been running regularly. I repeat: I'm so LAME!

Here's the deal. I DID find a good running route - the Constitution Trail - and Zoe was happily joining me on the morning runs as we found a water spot for her about half way for our usual route. It was good and I was feeling good.

Then I got sick. Then it got cold and dark. Then I got REALLY sick (nothing like the the germs all these college kids pass along to me). So . . . my regular running has become a thing of the past and it sucks.

I am finally feeling better again, but with it being just past the middle of the semester I am finding more of my time is being spent on campus dealing with student and faculty issues. So my Tuesday and Thursday mornings, which were ideal for running, are now full of outside meetings and conferences. Oy vey.

That gives me few options to get the running in. I can either get up and run on a dark trail at 5 AM OR run on a dark trail when I get home late at night. Neither option is very appealing . . .

However, I am MISSING it so I will have to find some way to make it work out. Besides, there is a local Turkey Trot I want to run on Thanksgiving and if I'm around here next year I have my eyes on the Chicago Marathon and there will have to be smaller runs leading up to it!

So my mid-term self-evaluation is an F regarding my running progress. But I think I can raise my grade before winter break . . . I'll keep you posted.