Trouble with Blogging

The main trouble with blogging is that I have a running blog. Meaning  . . . I have to actually lace up my Brooks and go for a run.

Napping > Running

 And the more I run, the more I feel the need to sign up for races. If I'm going to run 13.1 miles anyways, I may as well make it a race, so that I can get a shiny new medal and feel superior.

But then once you have a medal, it looks very lonely by itself. And two medals are more impressive than one.

Medals weren't meant to be alone. 

The more I run races, the more I'm running. And the more I'm running, the more things I can blog about on my running blog. And the more I blog, more people want to become virtual running, blogging, buddies (hopefully).

And the more people become my friends, the more I need to blog to keep my new friends. And the more I need to blog, the more I need to run in order to have something to write about.

And it's a vicious cycle that I accidentally got swept up in. This is the trouble with blogging. And this is also why I'd probably end up running for the rest of my life.

I hope you guys have a happy, garmin-catching Friday! And if you're thinking about starting a running blog, or already have one, IT'S A TRAP! There's no turning back. So might as well enjoy the ride. 

How Much is Too Much?

I am a competitive person, and I like thinking of myself as a runner. Call me vain, but it feels nice to think "I'm a runner," whenever a run gets hard or I'm out there alone chugging away. And because of my competitiveness, I can never find the right middle ground. Races are often horrible (from pushing too hard), or not as fast as it could have been. For 5Ks, I usually try to give it my all. And so far for half marathons, I lose mental edge in the middle when it gets hard. Because I figure, why did I pay $40+ dollars to not have fun, so I slow down.

Definitely my problem for a half. 

Now the reason for my post. Whenever I start adding tempos and interval runs, I get the same nagging shin pain. It's not serious, but annoying and makes me wonder if I should cut back. But with school, I barely get in 20 miles a week, so I don't know where I could even cut back. And I figure that it's reasonable to have some pain and soreness with working out regularly. I guess I'm just not sure where to draw the line.

On a happier/stressful? note, I signed up for my second 5K. I signed up thinking that I would try to PR, but that thought was stressing me out last week, so I decided to shoot for a time around my last 5K's time or slightly faster. I will just give it my all and remember that I didn't do any speed intervals while training for my second half.

I WILL run like hell. And I WILL have fun with it. 

Fun fact: The race starts at a bar. And it will have six pack runners which are group of six runners all connected together somehow. If I had five more runner friends, I would have definitely been up for that.

I am excited. And I will now go contemplate whether the shin thing is too much and I should rest or not. And of course the first pic is from fb I <3 to run. Love that page!

Have a happy Monday tomorrow! And what should I do? Where do you guys draw the line when it comes to running pains?

And because everyone who runs/reads my blog is a sexy beast . . . 

Let's go eat some sexy beasts!