So I use the title hashtags when I post my running pics on IG but the other day someone posted a blog about being a mom of young children and never having time to run so don't no excuses her. I've been wanting to write but simply have been too crazy busy and/or tired until now.
Here is what I mean with #noexcuses: I am making choices. See I don't run everyday. I don't run on schedule. I don't always make my goal of running 3 times a week and I'm okay with that. I'm okay with choosing to not run. See #noexcuses is about me asserting my choice to not run, to skip my workout, to run fewer miles than scheduled, and hell to fuck the time and just enjoy the run while I'm out there. I have a 2-year-old and a 9-year-old. So I do have a small child at home and completely understand putting your children, especially young ones, before your workouts. Ladies, assert yourself and choose your kids! They are little for such a short time. My kids needed me is not an excuse it is a valid choice. No further explanation needed for missing your workout. I don't want to make or use excuses. I want to choose. I want to own my choices. I need to own them. So when I #noexcuses know that I 100% support you not running. Do you! No excuses, do you!
As for #teamturtle, I struggle with the whole being a slow runner thing. Back in the day, as in high school, I ran cross country and I was the slow runner. I ran somewhere between an 10:30-11:00 min mile. I would kill for that now. Lord can I be as slow as when I was in high school!? Now I'm on the 13-14 min mile club. For some reason in my mind I need to beat 15 min miles. 15 minutes seems pretty arbitrary to me but it is stuck in my mind that way. With my trail race in a couple of week, I have found that trails runs have me averaging about 17 minute miles and I'm good with it. But anyways, my point is I know some people would kill for my 13 minute miles. I go around apologizing for being so slow and someone else wants to shoot me for being so fast. Instead of being envious of the people who qualify for Boston, I want to work on being supportive of the runners who dream of 13 minute miles, 20 minute miles, just running/walking/crawling 1 mile. We all start somewhere and we need to make sure we cheer other newbies. Yes I will always be jealous of the thin gazelle-like runners who run 8-min miles as a slow recovery run but I want to be there cheering for my fellow runners at the back of the pack. We are runner because we say we are and we get out there. Our mile time does not equal our worth as runner, our value as runners, or the quality of our miles. 24 minute mile, 13 minute mile, and 8 minute mile are all a mile!
Here is what I mean with #noexcuses: I am making choices. See I don't run everyday. I don't run on schedule. I don't always make my goal of running 3 times a week and I'm okay with that. I'm okay with choosing to not run. See #noexcuses is about me asserting my choice to not run, to skip my workout, to run fewer miles than scheduled, and hell to fuck the time and just enjoy the run while I'm out there. I have a 2-year-old and a 9-year-old. So I do have a small child at home and completely understand putting your children, especially young ones, before your workouts. Ladies, assert yourself and choose your kids! They are little for such a short time. My kids needed me is not an excuse it is a valid choice. No further explanation needed for missing your workout. I don't want to make or use excuses. I want to choose. I want to own my choices. I need to own them. So when I #noexcuses know that I 100% support you not running. Do you! No excuses, do you!
As for #teamturtle, I struggle with the whole being a slow runner thing. Back in the day, as in high school, I ran cross country and I was the slow runner. I ran somewhere between an 10:30-11:00 min mile. I would kill for that now. Lord can I be as slow as when I was in high school!? Now I'm on the 13-14 min mile club. For some reason in my mind I need to beat 15 min miles. 15 minutes seems pretty arbitrary to me but it is stuck in my mind that way. With my trail race in a couple of week, I have found that trails runs have me averaging about 17 minute miles and I'm good with it. But anyways, my point is I know some people would kill for my 13 minute miles. I go around apologizing for being so slow and someone else wants to shoot me for being so fast. Instead of being envious of the people who qualify for Boston, I want to work on being supportive of the runners who dream of 13 minute miles, 20 minute miles, just running/walking/crawling 1 mile. We all start somewhere and we need to make sure we cheer other newbies. Yes I will always be jealous of the thin gazelle-like runners who run 8-min miles as a slow recovery run but I want to be there cheering for my fellow runners at the back of the pack. We are runner because we say we are and we get out there. Our mile time does not equal our worth as runner, our value as runners, or the quality of our miles. 24 minute mile, 13 minute mile, and 8 minute mile are all a mile!
