I'm lacking motivation on a serious scale...
Do you know how many times a week I'm supposed to be running? Four.
...Do you know how many times I'm actually running every week right now? Once. Twice if I'm feeling guilty. But mostly once. Someone. Please. Help. Me.
We're up to six miles at my runs with Team in Training, and I thought for sure that's when my lack of motivation would catch up with me and my body would throw itself on the ground at about mile 4. But that didn't happen. So even my body is encouraging me to slack off. I told myself that If I went running for 3 days a week, for 2 weeks in a row, I would go buy myself some shoes that I'm drooling over. That didn't work either. I need some motivation and I need it fast.
SO, I've done this little exercise in the past, while on my run, to keep my legs moving. I need to start listing why I'm running. I'll start with the few that I already made. Maybe I'll even elaborate in an effort to really guilt myself into running (yes, at this point I'm going the Catholic mother route).
1 - For all the times I have to tell my kids that they can, when they say they can't. I have to remind my kids on a daily basis that, yes, they in fact can take off their shorts by themselves. But the 'can' I'm thinking about while running, is when they are trying something new or something difficult. I cannot be a hypocrite and give up at the first sign of difficulty, and I want to be an example of how to follow through on a goal or a dream. How effective is me just telling them that they 'can' if I don't show them that I can.
2 - Because I have a dangerous love affair with food, cakes and cookies especially, and I can only ask so much of my metabolism. Yes. Yes. Yes. Enough said.
3 - For those who actually can't. This is a good one for me to remember. And rather appropriate considering that I'm running with Team in Training. I'm willing to bet that someone dealing with chemotherapy treatments would much rather be out running, even in the worst conditions. So, yes, I'll put my miles in for everyone out there.
4 - Skinny girls are awesome. While I tend to believe that being healthy is awesome, this reason was given to me by an old friend, and seeing as I do consider myself a skinny girl, I'll take the compliment and hope that my husband likes skinny girls too.
5 - Because if I don't run, May is going to really hurt. This is a tough one. I suppose I could just substitute May with October, but seeing as I've done this mileage before and my body is in cahoots with my lack of motivation, this may not be as true as I want it to be.
6 - Maybe just maybe if I run enough my butt will get larger with muscle and my pants will finally stop falling off. Now this one, I can still get behind (pun intended)! But if things keep going in the current direction, I just need to find smaller jeans, that fit snug on my butt without suffocating my quads and calves. sigh.
7 - To decrease the likelihood of getting hit by a meteor. This reason was brought to you buy the same 'skinny girls are awesome' contributor. I really have no explanation, except maybe that I could outrun the meteor? Or a moving target is harder to hit? Yea, I don't know about this one. Not sure that this is going to get me in my running shoes when it's 90 degrees out.
8 - To decrease the likelihood of being eaten by cannibals. See #7.
9 - To get drunk quicker. Another delightful contribution to my list. And this one I can go with. I used to pride myself on drinking with the big boys, but now seeing as all my time and money go to the 3 kids, I've gotta be economical and swift! :)
I'll be adding to this list as the season goes on. Because if I'm not finding the motivation now, then I can only imagine what it's going to be like 2 months from now. Feel free to give me some reasons, if you have any that would help me out (and #7 and #8 are guidelines of not reason enough).
