Today I came home and picked the dried flowers from the arrangement I made last week. I am thinking maybe I'll dehydrate or press them.
I decided to go on a short run after a small dinner of gluten free pappadelle's pasta and acorn squash.
My five miler went great. I didn't feel exhausted by the end and I felt like I could keep going. A little bit of my intense worry is relieved.
I have a right to be worried. I've missed a ton of runs. I am sweating bullets about the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on June 2nd. It has been hot here in San Diego so I decided to skip the 20 miler completely. I just kept putting it off and putting it off and ended up not running at all. I know that is a pansy way out. I should have went for a measly fiver just to get myself back in the routine.
It looks like the rule of thumb is that if you miss two long runs, you should adjust your expectations. I've missed several long runs. The weekend just isn't a great time for me. I like routine, and the routine just goes out the window for me when I don't wake up to go to work. My problem is that my expectations were just to finish. What is the point of showing up if I can't even expect to finish? Being picked up by the sag wagon as a 140lb 24yo woman would be heart break.
This is entirely consistant for me. I tend to fizzle. There are people that finish strong and then there is me, the fizzler.
the dailymile supplied me with the following graph to illustrate just how much I fizzle.
I decided to go on a short run after a small dinner of gluten free pappadelle's pasta and acorn squash.
My five miler went great. I didn't feel exhausted by the end and I felt like I could keep going. A little bit of my intense worry is relieved.
I have a right to be worried. I've missed a ton of runs. I am sweating bullets about the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on June 2nd. It has been hot here in San Diego so I decided to skip the 20 miler completely. I just kept putting it off and putting it off and ended up not running at all. I know that is a pansy way out. I should have went for a measly fiver just to get myself back in the routine.
It looks like the rule of thumb is that if you miss two long runs, you should adjust your expectations. I've missed several long runs. The weekend just isn't a great time for me. I like routine, and the routine just goes out the window for me when I don't wake up to go to work. My problem is that my expectations were just to finish. What is the point of showing up if I can't even expect to finish? Being picked up by the sag wagon as a 140lb 24yo woman would be heart break.
This is entirely consistant for me. I tend to fizzle. There are people that finish strong and then there is me, the fizzler.
the dailymile supplied me with the following graph to illustrate just how much I fizzle.
Right after my awesome high milage week (the 15th) I basically only went on 1 run per week for the next month. I am sabatoging my chances for success by being lazy. I am the type of person that senses comfort and just loses it.
Its the same old story. This what I did for my SAT's, then my college applications, then every test in college, then studying for my GRE's, then studying for the FE. I start strong then hope its enough because I buckle under pressure.
I was hoping this marathon training would help me work on myself buy helping learn how to kick in the end. I didn't. I just fizzled. Maybe if I go to the race and make myself finish, twisted ankle or no, blackout or no, It will teach me that there are reprocussions.