Changes and mental stuff

So instead of making this a running only blog I think it will just be a blog about everything in my life that I feel so inclined to talk about on the internet. That's the change part. I feel as though I need a lot of other change in my life right now but as usual I am stuff in a cycle of having that change be just out of reach.

Time for the mental stuff. So my ankle and shin are feeling a lot better after some icing and stretching which leads me to believe that it was more in my head than I wanted to admit. So here is what I think happened. I have a great running partner, Emily, and I will continue to call her my running partner since we will someday (I hope) be at the same point as far as pace and such goes. So we haven't been running together for long but she had ran longer before than I did and basically she is just faster than me. So I tried keeping up with her and did hurt myself a little but I think it's something more mental. I think I realized somewhere in my mind that I'm not as fast as her and instead of admitting that to myself I imagined my injuries to be worse than they were so I could have an excuse to slow down. Although I have people telling me that I am selling myself short, it's always been hard for me to have the confidence to believe that I can do something. I want to run the Iron Girl 10K in 11:00 min miles. I have people tell me I can but I don't believe it. Anyways- I got off track there. I feel blessed to have a friend and running partner like Emily that talked to me today about what we are going to do about running together now. She was honest with me and I really appreciated that. I think I need to learn how to run on my own instead of needing to run next to someone. It does help to have someone to start the run with. Ok, I'm done with blogging at the moment. That's all.