I never thought it would be this hard writing this blog. I love writing. I love running. Simple, right? No.
For the past 2 months life has been hitting me at full force. Thanksgiving morning I ran what felt like the perfect 3 miles to celebrate the holiday. That Saturday I started having cold symptoms. All the kids had some sniffles. I wasn’t surprised that it had now made its way to me. December held a slew of activities for our family ranging from birthday parties to overnight robotic competitions. Every week off consisted of doctors appointments, piano lessons, robotics practice (literally every single weeknight.) It’s that end of the year rush they talk about. When did we decide to schedule every possible thing in the first two weeks of December?
During this time my simple little cold became a full blown upper respiratory infection that would not leave. I would start getting better only to get sick all over again. One week I completely lost my voice. Another week, I was waking up in the middle of the night with fevers and cough. I had terrible sinus drainage and a hacking cough that made sleep (the little I get) impossible. Getting sick like this couldn’t come at a worse possible time. I had started running and increasing my mileage. Plus, I finally realized that running on our rural roads in the dark was not an option for training. It was time to buy a treadmill.
I won’t lie and say that I didn’t automatically want a Peloton Tread. I have the Peloton bike, and I love it! Plus, I use the Peloton app. Almost all of my workouts and runs are done with Peloton. It made complete sense to get the Tread. The downside was the price tag. I shopped around and thought about other treadmills; cheaper options. It was hard to spend that amount of money on myself. My husband knew I was struggling with the guilt of wanting one and told me just to get it. He didn’t need to say anything else. Peloton purchased. Of course, it would arrive right as I got sick. Running would have to wait.
I spent the entire of month of December sick. It wasn’t until the second week of January that I had started to feel better enough to start running. Of course, as I got better everyone else got sick. The first week my youngest baby got croup. Then next week my daughter came down with pneumonia that bought us a three day hospital stay. It felt like a never ending revolving door of what would we come down with this week.
Here I am in the last two weeks of January 2025 hoping for a much needed reset. Where am I at with my running and training? Pretty much square one, but that’s okay. It’s the life of a working mom. I took time off to get better and then took some more time off to focus on the kids. Some weeks or months will look like this. I have signed up for a 10k in May and have got my application for Chicago approved. I have started strength training and did an hour-long run yesterday. It hasn’t been consistent, but I am still making an effort. My real marathon training doesn’t start until June-I have some time. I am still trying to pick a training plan. My last marathon I used Peloton’s marathon training plan, but didn’t follow it to a “T”. I will either give that another go or maybe use a different one. Right now I am just focused on gaining strength and running at least 3 times a week.
Stay tuned as my next post will be all about Peloton and my full review of the Peloton Tread. 🙂
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