I am sooo in runner’s hell right now. I can’t even fully call myself a runner yet, and I’m already off the wagon. It SUCKS. I hate it. I WANNA get out there and run. It’s just not very possible. I HAAATE this time change. Why does it even happen?! It makes absolutely no sense to me. It is far too dark. To do ANYthing. Except stay inside. And get tired way too early and fall asleep. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
I don’t like in a particularly bad neighbourhood, but it’s not the best. I’m not comfortable with the idea of going for a run after work, in the pitch black darkness. It just would not be safe. No one would even pity me if anything terrible happened to me. People would just wonder why I was so stupid. You know what I mean?
I’m thinking I may have to run in the dark MORNINGS as opposed to the dark evenings/nights. It is seriously PITCH BLACK at 6:30pm when I’m getting home. I think the morning may be a bit lighter. Probably not. But I’m pretty sure it’s safer. Right?! I leave home before 7am to go to the bus stop. To get a morning run in, I’d have to get up around 5:30am. That even SOUNDS like death, but it’ll probably feel like LIFE.
The only thing now is WHERE to run. Where I used to go, it’s pretty bushy. It’s fine in daylight, but would really freak me out at night. Especially since Babe and I have seen people emerge from several places in that bush. There a little makeshift houses where people live in there. I don’t want to alert any of them. I don’t want them learning my patterns. Anything could happen. And I’m not even a scary/nervous person. I’m just sensible.
How is this going to work?! I have no idea. I am SO screwed for this 5k in Feb.
Song of the Day: My Love – Bird and the Bee
I would embed the video if WP wasn’t so weird, and I could figure out HOW. Ugh.
Cake Walks & Ice Cream Runs 