I'm still not running, but I thought I'd post about some of what I'm looking forward to. I really miss running, and I'm trying to stay positive.

I'm looking forward to:

• Running in the new development by my house
  •  I'm not terribly excited that it's there, since it's stupidly large and they cut down an awful lot of trees to create it.  Still, it's going to be a nice place to run, where cars aren't whooshing past me at more than 55 mph, as they do on the country roads where I usually run
• Running in the early morning
  • I really hate to get up early in order to run, but I really love morning sights, sounds, and smells.
• Running more this year than I ever have
  • I'm on track to do this, but I need to get this knee injury sorted.
• Shaving my 5K time
  • I've already beat my stubble time.  I just need to get it together so that I can beat it in November or December.
• Doing another half marathon
  • I really like that distance.
• Doing the Uwharrie Mountain Run
  • I want to do the 8 mile, not the 40 mile run.  If injury keeps me from doing this run ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to be pretty mad.  This is the run I was training for when I had a brain aneurysm.  I signed up two years ago, and then had to withdraw because of an injury.  Last year, I had only been running post-injury for a month or two and was nowhere ready for a race this intense. 
    

I'm not looking forward to knowing that I'm not running as fast or as strong as I had been, but I'll sure be glad to be running again.