hello!

Hello to all, (mainly Mr. Chisum) who may be reading this!

First off, you wanted us to keep a blog on "how i'm feeling" and "track my workouts, progress, mileage, and frustrations." Except for the fact that I'm not really running right now, so I don't have mush mileage! But I thought I would write down how I am feeling before I start running so I can remember how I really wanted to run when I get annoyed with it in February!

Basically, I really really really really want to run!! I would even hop in on a circuits or flows workout if I could! Literally, I'm going crazy without running! I did run 20 minutes on Weds, and 37 minutes on Saturday, but otherwise, I have taken 7 out of the past 9 days off. And this is stressing me out. You see, I don't want to injure/ jeopardize myself by returning to running too early, but I don't want to lose more fitness than I'm supposed to during rest. And I don't want to fail at the meet on Thursday, and I don't want to not run at all this week and then die next week when I return full time. So basically I don't know what to do! My current plan is to (maybe) run tomorrow (tuesday), thursday, and saturday...does that sound ok? And I would never go above 50 minutes or so, I promise! If you see this, is it ok for me to run like 3 or 4 days this week??

ps. I did almost everything you suggested I should do: I went for walks, I took my dog for a walk, I tried to get my mom to go for a walk, but she wouldn't, I took a lot of naps, I went to bed at 9:30, I biked, and rested a lot!!