Bad luck!

These past couple days have been kind of frustrating! I've missed both workouts for different reasons

Yesterday morning I got up all early to go swimming like I normally do on fridays. For some reason the pool was closed when I showed up at the normal opening time of 6am. I knew it had been closed for new years, but this was january 4th and it was supposed to be open again. Double checked the website - yep, reopens jan 2nd. I waited around for 15 minutes and still, nothing. What the hell. I was wearing sandals and a bathing suit under my clothes, and had no other shoes or clothes to do a regular workout in. So I ended up having to go back home to shower and get ready for work.

Saturday is a run day, and today my husband wanted to take his bike out on the trail while I ran it. So he spent all this time setting his bike up and cleaning it (he hadn't used it since it was shipped from Korea), we got all bundled up and drove out there, I was all pumped for my 3.85 mile run...and I ended up not running. Why? Well, I got some running pants on sale and wore them for the first time today. They are great pants, aside from the fact that they don't stay on my waist. For some reason they don't have an elastic waistband. Plus they sit pretty low on the waist to begin with. Now, I have never owned "real" running leggings before, all my pants are just standard "workout" pants with the looser fit (which I want to get away from and start wearing tighter fitting clothes for running) so I thought well, maybe they are designed to have a loose fitting waist in order to allow free movement? WRONG! They just fall off your ass. It's hard to run while having to pull up your pants every 15 seconds. I just couldn't do it, it threw off my ability to focus and was just plain uncomfortable. Another workout, FOILED! We're going back tomorrow - in my normal pants. But still. Grrrr.


Maybe it's just some bad exercise-luck-energy-what have you. I am starting to think I have a string of bad luck at the beginning of each new year. But maybe that's just nature's way of getting it all out of the way early. Whatever. Tomorrow I'm gonna get out there, do my normal routine - except run 3.85 miles instead of 3 or 3.5, and kick this bad luck or whatever it is.

Goal for the week - reach the 20 lbs lost mark! I am so very close...