So confession: between starting a new job, juggling GMS, and figuring out how to get through this holiday season, I may or may not have had to restart my 10k training.

Twice.

OK, three times.

I didn’t want to tell you because I felt like a failure, pathetic, useless. Instead of staring mid-September, October 1, or mid-October, I started October 25. Instead of completing my 9 week program, I will run my race in the middle of week 7.

But, chicks, next week I run a 5k with my Dad (his first) and my sister (our second together) and Jeff (also our second together.) Our pace will be faster than my pace running with my sister or Jeff, and hopefully will be another personal best.

Because despite it all, I am getting faster, if slower than I like. I am losing weight, if slower than I like. And on December 8, I will run a 10K. Probably slower than I like, but I will do it. And, after that, my 10k times can only get better.

Pondering all this, I am reminded of song lyrics (because I am always reminded of song lyrics) from Carbon Leaf:

You’ve come far, and though you’re far from the end
You don’t mind where you are, cause you know where you’ve been

I think I don’t mind, chicks.