I am in a crappy place right now with my running.

I ran a 5k last weekend and I was very disappointed with my time. I tell myself that relaxing and enjoying the racing experience is more important than what the clock reads at the end of the race, but the truth is I get a great deal of satisfaction out of meeting my goals. I have wanted to break 23:00 all summer, and I have yet to do that. I feel like a slow, old mule, plodding along purposelessly. The funny thing is, before I ran that race I felt great. I was very confident, I felt strong, I was sure that I was going to meet my goal that day. I usually don't disappoint myself when I have strong positive feelings such as those, so it is puzzling to me that I ran so slow. I am not going to post my time because I just want to ignore it, but it was slower than any 5k I have run this year.

Also, my darn feet have been hurting me again. I am trying to manage it, but they pretty much hurt all day long now, the left one moreso than the right. I have been pretty pain-free for most of the summer, and I was thinking that maybe I finally had the conservative training model perfected, but no, here we go again with the massaging, the stretching, the ice and the easing up and resting. I am going to have my chiropractor do a scan of my feet and fit me for some orthotics, so hopefully that will help me a bit. It is time for me to do something, as I am so tired of having to deal with this constant distraction.

I am not going to end this post on a depressing note. Instead, I will write about something that happened during the previously mentioned race that made me gloriously happy! B. ran the race with me! He is not a runner, but he did used to run with me way back when we were dating. In fact, he proposed to me at a 5k race! This recent race was in our hometown and since there wasn't any real travel involved I asked him if he would like to run the race with me. Well, surprisingly he did want to, and he did well considering he only runs once in awhile. I was so proud of him, and it made me reminisce about the "good old days" and how even though our life together has changed in many ways, the things that brought us together then, still keep us together today.