Dear James, Daniel and Emily
I had a plan, I was going to use Monday & Friday as my new off days. But I must have been forgetting what i was like to work a full week, after 3 weeks of partial or full days off work, and then before the schedule was anything but consistent. But this morning I remembered why I used Thursdays as a recovery day. Trying to run 3 days in a row, on work days, with out current school & activity schedule, just isn't practical. By Thursday morning I am tired, so I need that day off.
Makes more sense to run Friday & then the weekend days as my long stretch, because it is easier to sleep in and recoup some time on those weekend days. No big deal, just commenting on why I didn't run today. Plus, since Friday and Saturday are traditionally the days when we don't eat as well for dinner (eating out, split meals etc.) it is better to start that day with a run.
My other challenge for the week was not being silly. By that I mean trying not to get that feeling that I should eat something sweet after dinner, and succumbing to that since Kim is out doing something with a kid. That is just a silly, partially stress related thought, and exactly the sort of thing I have to challenge myself to move away from and ignore.
Tomorrow is my weigh in and will be the best test of where my new approach is really taking me. And then I get to start really running again this weekend. I have been purposely taking it easy this week, running my simplest flattest route. But starting this weekend I want to get back to challenging myself to incorporating the hills again. Because I think that if I want the running to be something useful I need to challenge myself a little more this year, and not be so content with just running my normal flat 3 mile route a few days a week.
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