No running sucks!

So the last time I ran was Tuesday morning. I wanted to run on Thursday but I had a buttload of clinical paperwork to do (I'm a horrible procrastinator). Since my Friday night was taken already I knew I had to give up the Thursday trail run in order to get it done. Lesson learned. Friday morning I was going to get up but wasn't feeling so hot so figured I'd try and get it in between getting out of work and going to my NICU observation. That didn't work out either. My observation was from 7:15 pm to 10:30 pm and I had to get up at 3:45 to be ready for carpooling to A2 for clinicals. Thought maybe I'd get a run in afterwards. That didn't work out either. We got lost getting home from dropping off another student who doesn't live in Lansing and we were all so tired and slap-happy we missed the split to the highway we were supposed to take and ended up halfway to Battle Creek before I realized we weren't going the right way (I wasn't driving BTW..).

So I got home and went to a 4th of July party (yes, I know it was June 30th but they have the party the weekend before the holiday). I wasn't going to drink or stay late so I could get up this morning and go for a run with the Playmakers group. Okay, so that didn't work out either. ;)

So today I'm going to take it easy in the morning, get the remainder of homework I need to finish all out of the way and go for a run later this evening, without fail. I HAVE to or I'm going to start losing it! I did figure out though, that I can work off a 12 week training schedule for the half. If I plan on just walk/running the local half, I could wait until the end of July to start training for Detroit. I'd like to do the 10 mile Crim race in Flint in August too though..so I'm debating today about when to start my actual training plan. I tried to start on the 18th of this month, and the first week went well, but this week just wasn't meant to be..so I'm just considering it further recovery and officially I'm not going to start training until the 8th...since that's when I SHOULD have started training anyways seeing as how I've had a nagging ankle pain since San Diego.

Okay, enough rambling. I'll post something once I've actually gone for a run. ;)