I suck… Okay, I’m over it now

August 9th, 2008

I logged on prepared to beat myself up over my puny whimpy run today, but decided to do a little self-talk and a little self-love and get myself out of my self-induced funk and give myself a pass on the sucky run.

Road my bike to the gym, which is almost a mile (.7) each way.  There’s a little hill before the gym, and when huffing up the hill made me tired and winded I thought, this does not bode well for my run.  Hit the treadmill and decided to start out at my “fast” pace, which is 5 mph.  Goal was run two miles at 5 mph.  I ran one mile at 5 pm.  Dropped my speed down to 4.7 mph and ran another 1.25 miles and then took a five minute walking break.  Resumed running and ran another mile at 4.5 mph.  Jogged a final quarter mile at 4.3 and then walked half a mile.

Kind of wimpy because my goal was run two miles at 5.0 mph and then run two miles at 4.7 mph before walking.  But I just didn’t have it in me.  Nothing felt good.  My breathing felt labored.  My legs felt tired.  My feet hurt.  All around NO LOVE FOR THE RUN today.

The bright spot was watching the Olympics, which I wrote about on my other blog.

 I came home, showered, ate and I still don’t feel good.  So maybe something is off with me today.  And that is why I am giving myself a pass on the crummy run.

On the magical scale front: it read 146.4 this morning.  Again.  Hmmmmm.

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One Response to “I suck… Okay, I’m over it now”

  1. bigprof Says:
    August 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    I love that your crappy run would be my BEST RUN EVER! & I’d blog about it in ALL CAPS too, just to drive the point home that it was my BEST RUN EVER!

    But I’m a long way away from that & we started running at the same time, are the same height (& age too?), and look at you for crap’s sake, burning up the treadmill.

    Yeah, walk on over to my blog if you want to feel better about your run today :)

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