I Wish I Had RUN More

On Wednesday, February 1, I ran my weekly 5 miler, and until yesterday, I hadn’t run since!

My 9 mile long run that weekend was scuppered by Saturday evening snow.  Then the next week felt stressful, and I couldn’t motivate myself to run in the morning, even though I was still falling out of bed at 6:30am with good intentions.

Then I travelled out here to Los Angeles, and everyone knows travel makes things harder.

But, yesterday I finally got back in the saddle with a 5K run around West Los Angeles’ beautiful Holmby Hills neighborhood.  And Jesus Christ is it hilly!  I complained a lot about the hills at home in Virginia, but that was small fry compared to Southern California.  Although my pace was a respectable 9:24, I was dying by the end (the truth: I was dying as soon as I started!), and all I could think about was how much I regretted the afternoon visit to California Pizza Kitchen.  However, I did enjoy running in my new pink skirt from RunningSkirts.com:

I’m going to try for another 5K today and then a long run somewhere flat tomorrow.  I cannot skip days and days like this again.  I have 15 weeks to the marathon, and I better get my head in the game!

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ATTENTION ALL RUNNING BLOGGERS:

Please.  Please please please.  Please learn the appropriate use of “run” and “ran”.

These are all so wrong they make my eyes bleed, and I see them shockingly frequently in running blogs.  I have read three uses of them already today, and it’s only 5am:

I have ran.  NO!

I would have ran.  NO!

I had ran.  NO!

I should have ran.  NO!

I could have ran.  NO!

I wish I had ran.  NO!

Every single one of these should be “RUN“.

I once read that bloggers don’t mind being [nicely] corrected on grammar and spelling. I might soon have to test out that bit of advice because this is an epidemic.  A terrible, grotesque epidemic.