Sunday, August 9, 2009
I am a slacker, and I paid for it today
Good god life has been busy and I let my running go on the back burner (I haven't ran in so long I am embarassed to admit just how long it has been). I started my first job as a nurse about a month ago and I have been working 40 hours a week training. Summer with 3 kids means softball games at 5:30 pm, summer cook-outs, beer, sun, and family time. I have a 5.7 mile race in October to prepare for and yesterday I decided ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH and I needed to get my ass back in gear. So this morning I headed out on my usual course. IT SUCKED. It was as if I had never ran before. My lungs, my legs, and my mind were all a mess. My legs felt like rubber bands that were pulled tight. My head was telling me to dive out in on coming traffic as an easy way out of the run, and my lungs were telling me if I didn't stop I would pass out, oh and I seriously thought at any minute I would puke. Yep I had that much fun. I did 2.6 miles and really it was a walk and not a run. It was LAME. But out of all of my misery I learned one thing. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR GETTING OFF TRACK. YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF. I know I can do it, I have done it before, and I will again. I am pissed at myself for getting off track, but I will focus that energy on getting myself where I want to be.
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Oh I so understand where you're coming from! I didn't run for a month. My plan is add a mile a week. Week 1 was three days at 1 mile. Week 2 is three days at 2 miles. Week 3 is three days at 3 miles. Working up to an 8k in Oct., but I first have to get back to 5k shape for the Tunnel Run in Baltimore.
ReplyDeleteYou can do it!!! You did it once, you can do it again!
Don't give up. I know there's days where it feels like I never ran before. Just, some days everything is just right and it feels awesome. Then there are those days where just one thing off makes it feel like crap. I know if I didn't run for just a week it feels like I have to start all over again.
ReplyDeleteI thought about joining you on the turtle run, but I'm not sure I could even do that. I have the Detroit marathon the weekend before that. It all depends on how the legs feel.
Good luck,
Also, I'm sorry I didn't mention it before. I have a Garmin forerunner 205 I could have gave you.
ERIC! HEY STRANGER!!! :)
ReplyDeleteUmmm ya too late on the garmin, thanks anyway!