So May started off being a month much like all the others, sick.  I had one of the worst sinus infections I’ve probably ever had surprise me early in the month and it kept me from going to Dallas for a run and a Jimmy Buffett concert.  I ended up taking a steroid shot, which I never take (so you know it was bad) and felt better that Saturday but the local race was canceled that Saturday due to rain.  Afterwards, I felt bad again for another two or three days and then finally recovered for good.

Going into the rest of May, I got pretty greedy with work.  I’m on a rotating list of people who inspect anything and everything related to the sinkhole in Assumption Parish and it seemed that everyone else wanted off one day or another for various reasons.  Well, the k-time for weekends worked is very generous, so I opted to take any and every day I could for anyone that wanted off.  It wasn’t long before I realized that I had volunteered for every weekend in May.  It wasn’t much longer that I realized that I had inadvertently blocked myself from signing up for any sanctioned race/event in May since ever race in BTR and NOLA was on a Saturday or Sunday.  So before I was even finished with the third week of May, I knew I was going to finish the month empty handed with regards of races.

Kinda makes me glad I did two in March and April.  So I’m nowhere near worried about doing my 13 in 2013.  It’s just it won’t be as originally thought out: one race in every month plus one extra.  Oh well, such is life.

So I enter June on a mission to not do that ever again in future months.  I’m picking races out ahead of time now and blocking off the day or weekend just in case.  I’ve got it on my phone too that way if someone asks for me to switch with them, I can say no.  So far, that hasn’t been an issue for June.  I did switch with one girl already for an entire weekend (15-16) but my scheduled June race is for June 23 in NOLA.  I’m also thinking of going down for the bridge run this saturday but it depends on a few other things going on at the moment.  But I do intend to run the June 23 race with coworkers so that one is a lock.  I’m also looking at runs for July and August.  I’m actually considering traveling out of state for August, the dog days of summer.  What a ridiculous time to run a 10K huh?  Haha.

See you on the hot and dusty trail.