What the heck happened??

Oh friends, what the heck happened that last month? To say that our family life has been crazy and stressful is a laughable understate. Our life in the past month made bringing home a newborn look like a piece of cake. Life has left me so exhausted that the end of the day that all I have had the energy to do is plop into bed and try to turn off my brain so I can sleep. I think it you all know where I'm headed with this. My running has suffered tremendously from this. And I know, I know everybody is going to say that working out when I don't want to is the best thing for me. But kids, I only have so much energy to use throughout the day and right now 70% is going towards stress and 30% is going to wrangling a toddler.

I could go on and on and fill this post with whining and excuses but that's not going to get me anywhere.  I really feel like any and all progress that I made is gone. I'm sure that's not entirely true but I know that my body is not were it needs to be to tackle a 9.5 mile run. The plan is to just get back up and keep going. I'm going to start back at 5 miles and just work forward again to get where I need to be. I'm just thankful that this happened with 4 months to the race and not 1 month to the race.

I promised from the beginning that I would be 100% honest through this process and honestly, having come as far as 8 miles and then just stopping is so shameful. It took me 3 days to even write this post because I was so ashamed to share it. Send me your good thoughts and motivation, friends. We can do this.