99 Days of a Training is a 99-part series that I will document my daily progress towards my first marathon. Each day I plan on recognizing a word or phrase that corresponds with that day’s training. This series will conclude on May 6th, 2012 when I toe the start line (or somewhere in the back of the pack) at the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati, OH.

Phrase of the day:  Just run.

Today is one of those days… everything was humming along just fine until something hit.  Not sure what it was, but I lost it tonight and my family paid the price of it.  Too many times telling my son to sit down at the restaurant, too many times hearing the baby cry, too many times this, too many times that… too many excuses.  I lost my cool and regret that.

What does this have to do with running?  Well, I should have channeled that frustration until my next run.  When you are running you are liberating your mind and soul.  When you are running there is no frustration… there is one foot in front of the other getting that much closer to accomplishing your goal.   It is a calming activity that allows you to get rid of frustration, stress, anger, disappointment, etc.  I should have let my feet release those frustrations instead of my mouth.

The one thing I can take from this is tomorrow is another day.  Back to the grind at that point.  I missed (on purpose) my run today to take my kiddos to daycare, so instead of my off-day being Friday, this week it is Thursday.  Tomorrow I’ll pick up my 4, then 14 on Saturday.  At that point I’ll finish letting out any frustrations I may have so I don’t do it in situations I shouldn’t.

Just before writing this post an interesting picture popped up on my running group’s Facebook page.  It makes sense.