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runs last week. only climbed on friday. i think i did pretty well, considering we were in a heat wave all week.

i posted this on my facebook. i think this also belongs here. to my running friends: today, i put more miles beneath my feet than i have in about three years. with that, comes pain. as i was struggling through my run, one of the millions of running mottos popped into my head - "nothing worth having was ever easy." as i repeated that to myself, over and over again, i decided that wasn't true. the pint of blueberries that i bought ate the farmers market and ate in the sunshine was easy, and certainly worth having. well then, i needed a new motto. with every shuffle of my feet, i thought of a new one. all of a sudden, it dawned on me - they're all so negative. every fitness motto i've ever hear focuses on how you're not enough - not good enough, fast enough, strong enough, dedicated enough. here i was, in a beautiful place, and all i could think of was things that told me i wasn't good enough. with one haggard breath, i let all of that go. but here's the thing: running still hurt. i wanted a new motto. as i mulled this over, i found one - "be grateful." because, if anything, i was certainly that. i was grateful to live in a beautiful place, grateful to be able to run at all, even grateful for the pain, because it meant i was getting stronger. so, friends, maybe next time you're out running, disappointed because you're not fast enough or struggling through a run that you think should be easy, try this one for size. "be grateful."

back on my game. i've also started bouldering - three times this week. it's a nice way to get in more core/upper body work without doing things i hate, like push-ups.

random things: 1. it needs to hurry up and rain here. i don't want to get killed by a thunder storm on my run. 2. it's about a million degrees here. 3. i'm currently glued to my computer watching wendy davis's filibuster. i will do my best to wrench myself away to go running. 4. this was a useless list.

today, i hiked mount eisenhower instead of running. time wayyyy better spent, in my opinion. i acquired two bruised and skinned knees (due to my clumsiness) and a large blister on the back of my left foot. needless to say, running tomorrow should be interesting.

fell off the fitness bandwagon for about a week. but i jumped back on yesterday, with a 23 minute run. reading has been on point. what i've been finding is that ihave no problem avoiding dairy as long as i'm at home/packing food for myself from home, but the minute that i'm at a restaurant/out in general, it tends to go out the window. i've still been lacking planks/stretching/push ups.

sorry for resurrecting this long dead thread, but i'm in seacoast nh!

august 3rd - kingman farm trail race

on the roads, i'm pretty damn close. the trails are a completely different beast to me, and i have no good sense of how far i ran.

runs from this week! (yes, i'm counting sunday because i do what i want). acessory work is a fail....i've done it 0 times this week...hopefully i'll do better this week. i think i should have set more limits on what defines local...because cabot is pretty close...but i wouldn't really count it as local. i got 2 lattees this week from a local coffee shop, where the milk is unknown, and bought a block of cabot cheese, so that's not going terrible, but not going excellently. i wish our local farmers market offered cheese. if they did, i'd be alllllll over that.

boyfriend (who i live with over the summer) helped the neighbors move some furniture into their house. in return, they gave us a dozen eggs from their chickens. i went to the farmers market on monday, and bought some spinach, a cucumber, and another dozen eggs. my new running shoes came in four days early! they had their maiden voyage today.

my first challenge ever! as an ex-high school distance runner, who has struggled with consistently running since graduating high school, i'm hoping to get back to my roots and become consistent once again. my goals: -run at least 3 times a week. i have issues with consistency. i work monday, wednesday, friday, so it will probably be easiest to go on those days, since i'll already be out and about. - do accessory work (planks, push-ups, etc.) twice a week. this can be done in the house, on days i don't have work. -eat only local sources of dairy. if it's not local, i won't eat it. i've been vegan before, so this won't be that difficult to do. accomplished by shopping at farmers markets. level up my life goal: read at least three times a week. no excuses. there's no reason not to do this; i own enough books i've never read.