Square 1?

Am I back to Square 1? I feel so out of shape, so sluggish. The last two weeks I have been horrible about working out! Thank goodness Heather and I have been doing the Couch to 5K because if it weren't for her I would be hardly moving. I have been on about three runs, once it was after 18 hrs of driving in two days and I felt as if I was going to upchuck my fast food...another time I was sucking wind so bad I stopped to walk like three times....and my last run was pretty good due to the fact I was a bit angry. Anyways, I guess about 8.5 miles of running and 4 miles of other since I last posted. Part of the problem this last week was that I spent 3 days just driving! I never wanted to get back in the car again, my calves and back were killing me.

Aside from driving, I have this other problem--getting up when my alarm goes off. Most of my life I have been a pretty disciplined person about never hitting the snooze....well, scratch that, my sister woke me up all throughout high school....okay, in college I was disciplined about waking up to my alarm and as Madi says, jumping straight out of bed. However, this summer, I can't do it! My alarm goes off, I hit dismiss, and sleep for another two or three hours till I finally drag myself out of bed. I have been SOOOOOO tired in the last month! I sleep for eight to ten hours a night and then have one to three hour naps during the day. Maybe the sleep deprivation of college is catching up to me finally, I don't know. What is the problem you might ask? Well, I like working out in the morning, so if I don't get up somewhat early I don't really want to workout. Also, someday my life will be normal again and I will have a purpose and somewhere to actually be called work. So I have to be disciplined again at some point. Maybe when I have a reason to get out of bed I will actually do it, who knows.

Anyways, I want to feel purposeful, to get out of bed, to workout, to be motivated, and to embrace every single morning as a gift from my Lord. It may take awhile to get back to that, but it is where I want to be. I entitled this blog Strides, referring not only to the stride of the leg in running, but also the strides we make in life. Heather is making strides in both :) which is inspiring. I wish I could say I have made some strides in life as of recent, but I almost feel as if I have gone backwards, but then again, maybe that is the only path to going forward again. 

People, aka fam, if you read this, you should really post mileage and if not that, then something about life. We are in Idaho by the way, keep up the good work!