It’s the end of September which not only means the beginning of my favorite season but it’s also time to share some runfessions. It’s always good to cleanse the sole and start a new month fresh. I’m linking with Marcia for her monthly Runfessional. 

Some of you may already know that my registration for the Boston marathon was accepted, woohoo! So of course I have to mention it. 😉

I runfess that I want to tell everyone I see, even the ones that don’t know anything about how important it is or care. I’ve been pretty good about holding back but it’s been tough. I don’t want to be that person that manages to insert it into any conversation…

Random person: “Any plans for the weekend?”

Me: “No not really, just starting my training for the Boston marathon that I’ll be running in April.” 

I runfess that I’m a little worried about my pace for Boston. Should I try for my qualifying pace? Can I just run a comfortable pace and enjoy the experience? Will the race officials see my pace and wonder if I had a mule qualify for me and kick me out of the marathon? Am I over thinking this? Ugh!

Okay change of subject to something totally unrelated to running. Many of you may know that I’m an ED nurse and work in one of, if not the, busiest emergency departments in southern California. We see a lot of people, and amongst those people we see a huge amount of homeless with mental health and drug addiction problems.

I just want to say that I runfess…

I am over the methamphetamine abuse problem in this country. It didn’t take long for there to be a ban on vaping products after a few deaths (not diminishing the importance of it) while meth is everywhere! I ask almost each and every person that comes to the ED if they use meth because it is that common, with heroin a close second. I’m truly over it. Californians complain that the cost of living and housing prices are the reasons for the homeless crisis but it’s a drug addiction problem, which is also causing the mental health issues (meth induced psychosis). 

I wish I had an answer, but I don’t. Any suggestions? Why can’t people just be addicted to running and signing up for races like us? 🙂

Lastly, I runfess that my blogging has been taking a back seat to everything else in my life lately. I’ve been working a little more than usual (not really sure why, just happened), my off weekends have been busy and I needed to update my php on the blog (whatever the heck that is) and I couldn’t figure out  how to do that. Fortunately HostGator did and fixed it in like 4 minutes. Also I’m struggling with coming up with new content that I think people want to read. I wonder if people really want to read about my weekly workouts…seems so boring. Ho hum. Having said that, I still read the other blogs in my niche and am so glad I found this group of bloggers who now feel like friends. To the point that I sometimes feel like a stalker. I’m not but I do spend way too much time scrolling through IG. 

So that about covers it for now. I’m hoping to cut back on work hours so hopefully I’ll be putting up some “exciting ” new content on the blog. Until then I’ll be stalking reading yours. 😉

Thanks for reading!

Keep running! (don’t do meth) 😉

                Denise