OffnRunning?

Since when?

Not since March 31st, that's since when.

This fact didn't depress me until recently. Very recently. Last week recently. I was driving home from lunch, the weather was spectacular, and I thought to myself, "This would be a perfect day for a run on the Greenway."

Except that the "run on the greenway" was 7.2 miles, and I had maybe clocked about 12 miles.

For the entire month of May.

And zero miles for the entire month of April.

Cue panic.

This month, June, I will start running again. Tomorrow morning will be the first of a regular series of three weekly runs for me. At first, just 3 miles, with a "long" run of 6 on Friday. Then each week, I'll bump up one more mile per run. My goal at the end of the month is two normal runs for me (6-8 miles) and one long run of 10+ miles per week.

BUT.

I do not want to overdo anything. My long runs will be capped at 13 miles tops. I figure being able to bang out a half marathon will leave me in good shape for September.

I don't want to stop running. Running is portable. Running is centering. Running is empowering. Running got me through some tough times, and gave me something to focus on when other aspects of my life went blurry. As much as I love cycling, and God do I love cycling, for me to give up on running would be for me excise a part of myself I'm not ready to cut off.

So tomorrow, June 1st, 2010, I am once again OffnRunning.