Slowly slowly, I'll get back on track. Slowly

Where to start, where to start. So I had a pretty rough second half of January where this whole thing sort of fell apart. I ended up not doing a single run for about a week and a half - although that doesn't sound like much, it ends up being a 30k running debt!

I have to admit, posting about the struggle I was having made it a little easier to cope. Not that I need to justify my lack of runs, but noting down why it happened and making sure I didn't glaze over the tough times really helped with the mental block I was having.

If you're interested in my thoughts right after a run, feel free to add me on RunKeeper (amzism). I generally makes sure to add in a short comment after each run. It's only recently gotten to be less of a struggle to get out there and run, and I'm starting to feel like maybe I can push myself to improve times too. Very slowly, I'm getting back into it. Only a matter of time before each run is a little longer. Right now I'm happy to just focus on 5k at a time.

Now, I'm sure people don't come here for the (awesome) commentary, so here are some pics.

Look at that! 20km for Feb already! For this week I have done a little over 15k so far, so 5 more and any extra will be going towards run debt. I'm hoping to knock off at least 5 this week.

And here's my little running man. So proud of you buddy, that little blue block is slowly building up. You know, I cannot wait till I hit half way, just seeing that graph fill up will be the biggest motivation to continue. I am so linking back to this post when my phone reads 50% and 500k!

To anyone struggling with things right now (life in general seems to have been pretty tough for a lot of people lately) - hang in there. Things have a way of sorting themselves out when you stick around for long enough :)