The answer to your question is yes.  I’m a reprobate.  I’m despicable.  I’m lazy.  Um, what else can I say -- except if you have been checking, you’ve found a big nothing in my running log.

I’ll be honest.  I let myself off the hook for spring break.  I had good intentions, but I just wanted to relax at the lovely Tatanka Ranch and I didn’t want to feel guilty about it.  So I ran one day last week and called it good. 

The only problem is that once I fell off the wagon . . . well, I stayed there.  And, honestly, I’m still under the darn wheel wondering when, if ever, I’ll get back up.

I even purchased a new running aid during spring break to motivate me.  It’s called a Nike+ Sport Kit and it’s pretty darn cool.  There’s a tiny computer chip that you wear in your shoe and it tracks your mileage and speed and all kinds of other stats.  It has a companion receiver that you plug into your iPod in order to get audio updates through your soundtrack.  Equally cool, every time you plug your iPod into your computer, it automatically uploads all your running data to the Nike+ web site where you can track and analyze your progress.

Of course, you have to actually make progress to analyze it.  So far, all I’ve done is read the gadget’s manual and think about how cool using it would be. That, and create a million rationalizations -- like I start my final class this weekend, and I’m snowed under making the final revisions to my thesis so I can graduate, and I’m so busy at work, and so tired of life, and so . . . full of excuses.

Please -- if you care about me at all -- please, please shame me back into running.  Be merciless.  Be creative.  Tell me the hair cut I got this weekend doesn’t do a thing to “thin” my face and I’d better get going or risk the rest of my life looking like an ‘80s Liz Taylor.  Tell me anything.  Just tell me to RUN.