So its been about 2 weeks since my last update and I just got through my second major setback of the winter season. If you recall in January, I was out for 5 days while I got sinus surgery, but then slowly made my way back … and now my wife had knee replacement surgery this past Monday and I missed another 5 days due to needing to take care of my family. This leaves me just 11 short weeks to train for the NJ marathon, and boy, its going to be a tough 11 weeks i’m sure.

I returned to running just today by getting 6 miles in. I am sore right now and I hope that I can get another 10 in tomorrow maybe and start to get out in the mornings again. I realize now that i am starting to put on weight again, but I think I caught it at the right time. I realize I have a LONG way to go, and its going to be a lot of heart and dedication to get myself together.

Its freezing out now, with snow and everything all over the place, however i’m hoping that it starts to break soon so I can get real serious with running again. I just realized that its only like 3 weeks until we set the clocks ahead already, so thats a good thing, it means spring is on the way!

So I’ve realized its time to get serious and I don’t consider myself in a slump, however I do feel revitalized after getting through the struggles this week.