Progress Report: August 4, 2008

Things are going well, overall. The more I focus, the less I think and, dare I say, the more I am true to myself, the more I realize just how important this journey is to me. To be angered to no end about not making progress in my journey while, all the long, knowing fully well that I was not doing all of the things necessary to make that dream of success a reality was, well, idiotic. I am focused now on recording all of the things that I consume. Alcohol is not the mainstay in my lifestyle that it may once have been - for whatever reason. This too is a learning experience. It is something that, if I really put my mind, heart, and soul into it, I have no doubt in my mind that success will follow.

Garbage in, garbage out, indeed. I now know why I have felt like such crap for so long. I may have been running, I may have "said" I was watching what I ate. But ultimately, I was too busy making excuses to justify my bad choices to really see what I was doing - i.e. giving myself an out to go back to the way I was over 100 lbs ago.

Strange...

But nevertheless, I digress. The running is going well. I am toying with the notion of running after work during the week. The morning thing is, well, shaky at best. We shall see. The long runs are progressing nicely. I logged a 1:15 run (about 7 miles) this past Saturday, and truly enjoyed it. It is crucial for me now, just as much as it will be on the day of the half marathon, to remember that this is fun. Just as it is easy to forget that I am a runner, it is equally as easy to forget that this was, is, and will continue to be fun for me. Losing that feeling would be to lose my soul, my driving force on this journey. Yes, I said it. Running is fun... and amazing, and beautiful, and challenging, and the best thing that has ever happened to me outside of my lively wife. Life, my friends, is not all bad.

Be well.