At this point, I feel like I am doing nothing but frustrating myself and complaining on here.
I got all my runs in last week! Success! I was really happy about that. Things seemed to be getting back on track after the terrible week before it. It was also my birthday! I turned 33.
And then....because of course...this week fell off the rails. First, it decided to snow insane amounts quickly. Okay, no big deal. I'll use the treadmill. NOPE. The treadmill belt wasn't working so I needed to order the lubricant for it, because OF COURSE, we didn't have any. Fine, no big deal, I delayed my run and quickly ordered off
Amazon. It came the next day and I got my first run in of the week. I figured I would just rearrange things a bit and I'd still be able to get all my runs in.
HAHA, good joke.
Then, our family cat died (he didn't live with me, it was the family cat between myself, siblings, parents) very unexpectedly. Upsetting, but wouldn't affect the run. Oh, but that doesn't mean something else didn't impact my runs. So, we go to bed Tuesday night and wake up to the sound of alarms. Our carbon monoxide detector went off. I was hoping it was the battery, but nope! The readings were high and we had to rush outside in -10 degree weather and call a fire department. Fire department came and also detected high readings. They were thankfully not high enough to cause illness (yet) and I'm so grateful that our alarms worked. With that said, the fire department determined that our furnace needed to be shut off. Did I mention it was -10 without wind chills?
So, we finally get back in the house and have to contact out HVAC guy. They got to us pretty quickly. Unfortunately, the furnace was not fixable and we needed a brand new one. 15 hours later, the furnace is installed. Needless to say, I wasn't able to get a run in either outdoors or indoors and things have just a complete mess here.
The month of January always seems to conspire against me. Again, I feel like I am just constantly complaining. At this point, I don't know what to do. I have an 8 mile run scheduled Saturday that I do plan on trying to run. Then next week, I should be able to get all my runs in. However, after that I'm on vacation so my schedule is abnormal.
I feel like this plan is just completely off the rails and at this point I have missed so many runs. Do I just continue where I'm at? Do I need to rework the plan when I get back from my trip? If it was just this week, I would think I should just continue. But, there's just been constant unavoidable issues popping up throughout this whole month that has me severely off track. I feel like I'm failing at this really great plan that was set up for me and I'm not sure if continuing the plan exactly as written would be detrimental.
This month needs to end.