After the second week of failing to get through my long run it is time to acknowledge that I have lost a little of my edge. It's not a bad thing in the big picture. And in fact it's better to acknowledge it now, and adjust, then to just struggle and feel bad about it.
Realizing that and admitting it led me to decide two things: first, stop my plans to do the half marathon in July. All things being equal I might have been able to do it, but circumstances have led me to realize it just isn't in the cards. Second, push my training program out, basically stop following the plan until I get back from vacation in 3 weeks. I knew that it was going to be tough to get in my training during that week. And that was going to just 1 more disruption. So I decided to make that change.
Today I went out having decided those 2 things, and just set up a free workout on MiCoach. My whole plan was to just get in around 3 miles today. Then once I got going I thought well maybe I'll get to 4 miles. But when I hit that mark, and walked a short distance I just started running again. I ended up running for 5 miles, which is the best distance I have done in a couple of weeks.
Go figure, maybe it took a combination of freeing myself from the training program, and also the knowledge that I could just relax and enjoy the run, for me to really get back in the groove. I'm not going to let the good feelings from 1 run change my decisions above, instead I will just enjoy these couple of weeks, still do my 4 runs a week (as best I can, not sure about the vacation week.) And then I will be able to really get back in the training groove in 3 weeks.
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