on again

So, I'll admit I haven't fallen off the bandwagon completely when it comes to running. I've had at least one run a week for the past month, but life always manages to make its way into my running plan. And I don't make the grand effort to reschedule. But I think I'm ready to get back into it. I have a month to train for a 5-miler. I always think of things like running or exercising as distractions from something else. But this time I want to approach it as its own facet of my life. Not as something that I'll do for a while until everything else in life falls into place, but as another part of my life. Something I do to do it, not just as a way to burn off extra energy or stress. I run to run. Joined a new gym that doesn't have towels. So I need to go get some, and maybe a larger or just better gym bag... getting a little awkward to carry around. But first towels, then laundry, then make a plan for the week.