Being ok with less than

Although I felt a bit unaccomplished today and considered not posting anything, I'm reminding myself that this is Sunday after all. Sunday is supposed to be my rest day anyway, so if I don't have anything major to report it's fine. Right? I think I'm just being harder on myself than I need to be, because I really did enjoy my day.

This morning I picked up the kids so we could go for our weekly park run. As I previously mentioned, we usually do it on Saturday, but since they were out of town then, we postponed our run until this morning. Before we made it to the park though, we went to the first Team in Training clinic (information meeting). During this first meeting, we were able to learn about the best shoes, apparel, etc. needed for our training/marathon.

(This week, the official TNT training is beginning to get underway. For me, it's kind of bittersweet because I've really enjoyed just having our little team of David, Dana and I. Now, things are finally starting to get serious! It's ok, we did sign up for this after all!)

Anyway, I learned some valuable information about some of the things I'm going to need to buy for my running. I really need to get better running apparel. I'm such a cotton person, but cotton is apparently the worst thing to wear. It holds onto the sweat too much. The thing is though, I just don't like wearing lycra... or whatever the right material is that I need to buy (I guess I didn't listen that closely, huh!) But I'll figure something out. Fortunately, I already have the right shoes. That's most important anyway, so I'm good for now.

After our information meeting, David, Dana and I went to Campbell Park for our run. I'm not sure where our energy was, but we didn't really run much. I take that back, David always leaves us in the dust! But Dana and I only ran about .75 of a mile and walked the other 1.25 miles. So while it was a total of 2 miles, personally, I felt a bit less than accomplished. (Maybe since I was able to run up to the 6 miles on Friday? Ok, Donna, let it go. It was better than nothing and you did get a chance to chat with Dana after missing her while she was on vacation!)

The rest of the day I spent with my sister Christy. We're not Super Bowl people so went to the movies. She then came over my place to hang out and chat for awhile afterwards. It was nice.

Now, I'm just thinking about tomorrow and what I'd like to accomplish then. I think I'm going to try and just give myself permission to relax now and be ok with not having done more today. It's funny to me that I even need to manage my feelings about this working out thing, but I guess it means I'm still committed :) Until tomorrow...