Ups and Downs

So while I was running yesterday I started composing this post in my head. I was going to tell you about how awesome my running is going. How I'm getting faster and picking up extra miles is a piece of cake. I'm running over 20 miles a week and so far my body is taking it in stride. No pun intended.

On Christmas Eve a ran from my parents house in the country to the coffee shop downtown. It was only 6.5 miles but it was the prettiest day and it was one of those electrifying runs. Fortunately I was smart enough at the time to stop and appreciate how good things were going. I spent Christmas day in the car and the following Wednesday I was super tired, oddly so. So I decided to take it easy and take an extra rest day. Then yesterday the sun was shining and I kicked out 4 quick miles. Nothing spectacular but not a suffer-fest either. Then today, I woke up with a some sort of cold and feeling like I'd been hit by a freight train. AGHHHGHH!

So frustrating but that's the way it goes. Ups and downs. Good days and bad days happen to all of us. I guess if we didn't have the bad days the good ones wouldn't be quite so special.

I'm drinking tea, resting and trying to mend as fast as possible. At this exact moment in time I'm not stressing about the miles I'll miss tomorrow. I can't promise that I won't feel differently tomorrow, or heck, even five minutes from now.

So until I run again, please pass the chicken noodle soup.

Thank you so much to those who have already donated to my Run to End PKD page. See this post if you'd like to know more.

And so it begins...AGAIN!

OK for those of you that are new and want some context to why I run check out this post. I had such good intentions of running CIM this last December in Sacramento (as much fun as that apocalyptic rain looked). What I've come to learn is that I had drastically underestimated how much time I would spend not running in 2012, and instead getting settled into my new life in Sacramento/Rocklin after living in San Luis Obispo for 20 of my 30 years. I've moved 3 times in 18 months, and it turns out that it takes some time to get settled and adjust. Finally after almost a year in Sac I feel like I have a new normal. So the time has come to get the cause back on track.

I am once again Running for PKD or rather to end it. After a fantastically fun and successful 10k Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving I figured the time was right to really resume training. So I'm all signed up for Shamrock'n Half Marathon (a 13.1 mile race) on March 17th, 2013. I'm currently running around 20 miles a week with 13 weeks to go. Things look good and I finally feel my running form is returning.

I apologize in advance for the countless blog posts, tweets (follow me at @EKurze, or #ShamrockinWhiskey) and FaceBook updates regarding this half marathon and my fundraising efforts.

I invite you to donate to my Run to End PKD fundraising effort. Thank you in advance for your support.

 Roseville Turkey Trot 10K Crew