Circular Reference

Its New Year's Eve and I just realized today that this half marathon that I'm supposed to be training for is in two weeks. I thought that running would get easier the more I trained. I've run into many obstacles though. I was pretty excited to start the training back in October, a little antsy actually. Then the first snow storm hit the week before Halloween. That was when I was house/dogsitting for some friends and almost lost the itchy dog the first 10 minutes I was with it when it broke the leash while I was trying to run around the track in the neighborhood. The snow prevented me (and the dog) from running anymore that week. Daylight savings was the next barrier to overcome. I dealt with this by running inside at the rec center around and around and around the indoor track. It wasn't so bad and training was pretty solid until Thanksgiving. Its hard to be motivated when you're on vacation and you can barely move from all the food you've been eating. Its pretty much been downhill since then. December was the busiest month all year it seemed. With all the holiday parties, functions, and snow, running has been put on the back burner. Not on purpose, but life just got in the way, my body felt beat up, and running around in circles was making me dizzy. Are these good enough reasons to rid all the goals I set for this race when I began training for it? I feel like I'm just giving up b/c of all the hardships I've had, but is it okay to just settle? I've been a little distressed over the situation. I've been going in circles all month. Not just around the indoor track, but with all my emotions and thoughts as well. Its not my personality to just give up or settle or make all sorts of excuses of why I can't achieve my goals. I usually work my hardest to accomplish my goals and I'm not known for ever really quitting at anything. However - I guess I'm not really quitting - I'm still going to run the race, but I have to learn to accept that if I don't run the race in a set amount of time - the original goal I set - its okay. And its okay b/c everything that was preventing me from running allowed me to spend quality time with the people that I love and care about the most. All I can do is loosen up about the situation, realize its not all under my control, and just do my best. There will always be another race to accomplish my goals.