There are really no excuses.....

....I always knew I was like some big train when I stopped running/training. I just can't get moving easily......

My achilles has actually been very good, but my lack of any running routine and any sort of internal discipline to get with it has led to some nice runs, but also a complete lack of focus and consistency. The 'sense of urgency' as i call it has yet entered my realm of thought.

On the plus side I've been spending more time working with the HS kids. It's fun working with them, but it's also killing my time management as having top pick up Carter, try to sell our house (final stages hopefully) and general life has made it difficult to truly be focuses. If there was any proof of that my constant 8-8:30 fall asleep on the couch times can attest to that. It's simply one of those things that will come, but for me it's never been easy.

Hence why I empathize with the HS kids we've been coaching. They are still learning, but gosh some of them have talent. We have three pretty good junior kids who have never trained for XC before and their results attest to their talent and having done enough work to have some nice results. We have one very talented kid, but we have unearthed four others who could make our school team pretty decent next year and very good the year after that. It's just getting them out. The shocking thing is that two of them gave up soccer to focus on running. Hopefully on my current comeback they can motivate me to get out more consistently.

Yes I am still alive....

...and no running is not going particularly well. If I ever thought there was such a thing as a minor achilles problem...shoot me. Although the achilles is okay to run it's still creaky. I just cannot figure out if it's simply old age creaky, injured creaky or simply just creaky and ok to run on consistently.

My runs are good (mechanics are much better even if they feel awkward), when I do run and it often feels better the next day, but I am also paranoid as hell tnat one step forward will be one step back, and I don't think my brain could take that....oh well for now I may have to take that step forward.....this is more stresssful than any race I have ever done....eeekkkkk....

I hope to post more consistently, in my typical tangent fashion, but things have been busy. Work, coaching the HS kids, and trying to sell a house(^%$*^%*^% chafer beetles) as julie is pregnant again means things are a little unpredictable these days and I more than most need predictability to run well (I find the more of a loose cannon you are the more routine one needs, at least in regards to place and time)