Day 75 - 10 days without a run/walk

10 days back I had pain in my right foot which went away in 3-4 days. So what was I doing after the pain got well? I don't know. I have no excuse, no reason for not running/walking. Or, maybe I have one. After a week of vacation I was back to work, and maybe still looking to set a schedule???
It is one thing to shirk away, when one makes excuses for not exercising, but this past week I have been kind of feeling low, not depressed, but not really intersted in doing anything. Have been wondering about my job or my goals or passion in life. What do I really want to do in life? Well, I guess that should be offtopic for this blog and more suitable for Steve Pavlina's forums :)

So yesterday I picked myself up and mentally even fixed a schedule for the runs. So lo and behold, there I was with a bad bad bad backache today morning. Don't know why except have felt it coming since the past few weeks. I am a little worried as I had a major backache problem in the latter part of 2006 because of which I could barely walk for a month. So here I am, on ibuprofen with a Thermacare heat wrap around me :(

The only positive thing I can find in the above is that all these days, I have thought about and wanted to run outside. I guess it was because I really enjoyed the last outside run I ran. Did I mention that the weather has not really been conducive to running outside lately :( ?

So hopefully, this backache will improve and I'll be able to go for a walk if not a run tomorrow. I really want to go back to doing the runs. In retrospect, I enjoyed them. It's another thing, that one magnifies the enjoyment and minimizes the pain while contemplating the past.