Sunday, June 2, 2013

Fail, Fail, Fail

I swear I was getting back on the running wagon, but life can be so distracting! Especially when there's other things I could be doing that don't involve going out into the blistering desert heat.

I went out with some friends Friday night and had a fabulous time. I didn't get home until well after 11 and had to ride bright and early in the morning. Plus, Prince Charming forgot to give me my wake up call.


It's impossible to run during the day in June in Arizona. It was 109 yesterday and 110 today. So even though I had a friend's 40th birthday bash last night, I tried to limit my sangria (which was the best sangria ever) to like 7 glasses because, by God, I was going to get up and run in the morning.

So I get home from the party and even get all of my running stuff together including remembering to charge my Garmin. I set my alarm for 4AM because I figured if I left by 4:30, I could be back by 6 and sleep for a couple of hours before heading out to the barn to take care of the horses. (I'm in charge of the horses at my barn on Sundays because I participate in a sport which I can not really afford and therefore I work off some of the expense.)

My alarm went off at 4AM. At least I'm assuming it did, because I have no recollection of that taking place. Instead, I became vaguely aware of pushing snooze at around 6.

That's right, I pushed snooze on my phone for 2 freaking hours. I could have gone running and been back in bed by 6 if I had just gotten up when I was supposed to. I guess I need something more motivating than Prince Charming to get me out of bed. Something a little more...life threatening.



That's not my only fail. I had briefly considered doing Juneathon awhile ago. But then I decided that it was probably a little too much to take on. I also had planned on doing a 365 challenge where you do sit-ups and push-ups every day for a year, increasing the number by one every day until you reach 365 on the last day of the year.

Then I totally forgot to do one itty bitty push-up and sit-up yesterday. So now I've totally screwed up my whole year!! I'm thinking that I will just start with Day 2.

Because I'm lame. Sigh.

So all my running shoes did this weekend was help me muck out horse stalls.


At least I got some form of exercise because running around the barn all day is exhausting.

Now I'm off to do a couple of sit-ups and push-ups. I hope I don't break something.

8 comments:

  1. I think you got some good cross training and it makes up for it ;)

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    1. Thanks, Abby. I certainly wasn't sitting around all weekend. I just wish I could have gotten done miles in. C'est la vie!

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  2. Sometimes we just have one of those sort of weekends..the run just doesn't work out..although I did find it funny that you hit snooze for 2 hours..I would have been annoyed bc I couldn't sleep longer than 9 minutes at a time lol

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    1. The funniest part is that I wasn't even awake enough to realize I was hitting snooze...over and over and over. Rock star, right here. ;)

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  3. You should just move in with me. I sing loud and obnoxious made up running songs at 4am. Steve is a lucky man. ;)

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    1. Would there be special Ari breakfast? I might be tempted. Lol!

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  4. Dumbo training: pwned! *sips margarita*

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    1. Can Dumbo just get here already? I'm tired of waiting!

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