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| Post 5k Dec 2008 |
Running… Where do I begin?
I have a love hate relationship with running; I love to run
and be mobile, I love to feel the sun on my face and the pavement move under my
feet, I love the breeze that I create by putting one foot in front of the
other; I hate the mental fight I have with myself before almost every run, “get
out there Jack, the day isn’t getting any longer / but I haven’t eaten or I
need to work on dinner.”
You see, I am admittedly lazy… That’s right, now you know my
dirty little secret. LAZY!!! As much as I love all of those things about
running I would really rather take a nap.
Yes, once I am out on the road and have hit my stride I am always happy
that I went, once I’ve completed a long run and my legs are screaming, dead
weight, I am overjoyed but the lazy girl in me is still thinking, “I could have
had a nap” or “I could have slept in.” Okay, maybe I couldn’t have slept in
because I am up at the crack of dawn everyday but I really could have taken a
nap…
I am one of those people that has to be training for
something ALL OF THE TIME because if I don’t have a race to look forward to
then I don’t have a reason to get out of the house. I can put it off until “tomorrow”
and tomorrow can turn into weeks. On the up side, I know this about myself and
I know that I have a tendency to be lackadaisical about my running. So for this
year we are currently training for a ½ marathon that we will run on the 12th
of May, I have incorporated speed work so that I can get my 5k time down and I will
run that sometime this summer, and I have decided that I am going to continue
to increase my mileage so that I can hopefully run a full in the fall. I’ve
told Travis that I want to either run another full marathon this year or get
knocked up, which ever happens will make me happy!
This past Saturday Travis and I went out for our 12miler. We
ran 11 and walked the final mile because we were both running on empty. Around mile nine I started to run out of gas,
I had to take a walk break almost every half mile and I hate that! I’m not one
of those people that thinks you have to run the whole race for it to count, on
the contrary, I think that so long as you start and finish you are a runner but
I am one of those people that hates it when I look back on a run and think that
I could have given more. The entire run plays through my mind like a movie and
I critique it, I question why I “needed” that walk break or why I took such a
long one. I know that I was tired and
didn’t have sufficient fuel for the last portion of the run but I still feel
like I’m making excuses. So to combat my
negative ways on next Saturday’s long run I am going to take something to eat
with me on the run, probably a banana or something, so that I’ve got the gas to
get through those last few miles.
Don't get me wrong, my love for running far outweighs my hate! I'll write a post on that soon because running is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT in my life.
Do you have to mentally prepare days in advance for your
long runs? Do your past runs play through your mind like a movie?
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