December 19, 2012
I can't remember the last time I laced up my Addidas Marathons and hit the pavement. I can't remember the last time I laced up my Addidas Duramos and hit the mill. I am ashamed to say I can't remember the last time I ran. I would like to say it is because I was dealing with my mother's illness. I would like to say I was busy with sick kids and Thanksgiving. I would like to say I was busy with sick kids and Christmas (what is it with my kids and holidays that they have to get sick during those times?). Unfortunately, the truth is that I am lazy and once again I have hit that sweet spot in my chair that doesn't want me to get out of it. Stupid chair! Lazy me! Is it too early to start my New Year's Resolution? I hope not because I'm going to! But first an update.
My last blog I shared that my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and that she had had a lumpectomy with a bit of reconstructive surgery. They had taken a sample of her lymph nodes to be certain the cancer wasn't in those. That was over a month ago and of course the samples have come back....some time ago in fact. There was no cancer in her lymph nodes, praise God! The doctors did some further tests and to make a long story short my mother was given the option of chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Needless to say she chose radiation treatment. She is in her second week of treatment and is feeling good. She has been told to expect to feel tender like she has a sunburn and to feel tired but so far she is feeling good. This is awesome considering the holidays are a busy time of year. She's even offered to come and help me get my house ready for the holidays. I always host the Christmas Day dinner at my house and with three kids at home getting the house in order and keeping it that way isn't always easy. I haven't taken her up on that although I might this weekend since I've not finished getting my house decorated with the Christmas decorations. I have such lovely decorations this year; my mother in law gave me some awesome things and I bought some new decorations and I'm excited to get them put up. Unfortunately I do have a sick boy this week and it's putting a damper on both house cleaning and decorating. Not easy to decorate the house when you're cleaning up puke. UGH!!! Uh-oh, I digressed.....AGAIN. Anyway, my mother is doing fine and that's the update on that!
As far as my running goes, the plan is to start up again after Christmas. I had planned to get back to it two months ago but once again I got in a slump. It's so easy to find excuses not to do what you know you need to do but it's so hard to get up out of the chair, especially when I know I have to acclimate to those stupid hills again! Stupid hills! I think this time I'm going to start right out on the street instead of on the mill. If I'm running on the street then I automatically have to adjust to the hills and it's not like I have to readjust from running flat. That's what I keep telling myself anyway, the old "That's my story and I'm sticking to it!" thing, yeah, that's it! LOL!!! Anyway, so the plan is to get out there on the 26th and get a run in....that is as long as there's no ice on the ground. So far it's looking promising. It's not terribly cold out and I've got my cold running clothes. I just heard thunder, yes, folks, thunder in December, so I'm not sure what's going down with the weather. I would like a little snow on Christmas and then for it to go away so I can run outside the day after. :-)
I guess that's it for now....no more excuses, no more updates!
Happy Running,
KEA
