September 28

I like to temper my failings as an athelete with really slow three and a half mile runs. I often wonder would my running would have been like if I had decided it was important when I was 18. Who knows how my gangly body would have responded? But it basically took me until around 26 to realize I needed exercise for my sanity as much as for my body. Since I did the 100 yard sprints last sunday by body has been tired. This whole week I have been caught in a general malaise. Yesterday around 11:00 I could not quite tell if I was getting sick or if I just needed sleep. I ran anyway yesterday and for the most part it was ok. I stopped and walked a couple of times. When I came in my wife asked if I was sick. But it was a run. One thing I am enjoying with this running journal is I can look back and see how much I am running. It averages out to twice a week for the month of September. I would like to do more than that for the next month. Though I will be in Belize during the middle of the month so I don't really expect to run then. Let's watch.