Someday soon, I’m going to do a post regarding my life goals and running goals. It’ll be serious, and it’ll be something I’ll hold myself accountable for. Putting it out there will be my inspiration to get a move on and attack my goals with vigor. However, today is not that day.

Today, my goal is to do NOTHING.

I plan on sitting here, watching trash TV, and bumbling around on my computer. Oh, and failing trying to take flattering pictures of myself. (Do you see that toenail?)

I know you think it’s probably easy for me to do nothing but it’s not. Whenever I have a “day off” from running, I usually end up heading to the gym and doing a variation of the following workout: bike for an hour, walk at incline for a mile or so, rowing machine for 10-20 minutes, 60 girl style push-ups and 120 crunches. That’s my “day off”. Then the next day I’m all, “why am I sore?? I didn’t run yesterday!” I’m one of those snobby running purists who thinks that running is the end-all be-all of exercise. I tend to think that just because I’m not running that I’m not getting in a quality workout or not really exercising. I’m starting to learn that this is not true, and realizing that an occasional day off from everything will improve my running in the long run (ha! I said run twice).

So today, with a little over a week from my first 50 mile run, I am going to do absolutely nothing. And it will be more challenging than you think.