Twenty-one days of rain

It’s been a few weeks since I updated my blog, so this afternoon, I opened my blog and found myself gawking at a blank ‘new post’ screen for the past 15-20 minutes. I really don’t know what to write because I haven’t ran or had to urge to run for the past 21 days.

I don’t know if my experience at the Boston Marathon zapped my love for running or because softball season is here and it’s going great -- I’m batting .546 and I think I lead the league in runs scored. I really don’t know.

I tried to map out a schedule for road races this summer and my mind just wandered elsewhere. I haven’t been looking up things at coolrunning.com or seeing what’s up on any other runners’ blogs (I actually check out 13 or 14 of them on occasion -- one of them might be yours!) I have this Thursday night off, and when I usually get this day off, I take off to Warren for the Red Rooster Ramble, but not only don’t I want to run in it, I don’t even want to show up to help out with the run and grab some good pizza afterwards.

A fellow runner told me I’m in just a slump, but how can you have a slump that only consists of one race? Besides, if I was in a slump for softball, all I need to do is take some BP, take a couple of pitches in each at-bat, and I’m right back on my feet again, going 2-for-4 or 3-for-4.

As they say in pro boxing, “You’re only as good as your last fight.” My last ‘fight’ saw me get an embarrassing ass-kicking, so I guess that’s how good I feel.