To run or not to run…UPDATE
June 27th, 2009
UPDATE: So I got up at 7 am and ran six miles. 6.2 to be precise, a 10k. It was the perfect amount of running to do and still get home in time to stretch, make coffee, shower and go to church and not feel completely wiped out.
I think I am going to forge my own plan and train for another half marathon in the fall. I *think* there is a half in conjunction with the Portland Marathon that my running group is training for. I do better when I am working toward a very concrete goal, so another half-mary in October would keep me on the right path with training, give me some nice downtime for the next few weeks before I start increasing mileage again.
That’s my tentative plan. It always feels good to have a plan! Later, chicks : )
So tomorrow morning, Sunday, is running group. 10 miles at 6:45 a.m.
My house is completely wrecked. I am in the middle of 100 projects. I have work to do (as in jobs that I need to finish to get paid!) and DD10 is playing violin at church in the morning.
Plus? I don’t feel like running 10 miles. I just don’t. Eight miles last Sunday was brutal. If I run 10 miles, I am pretty much spent for the day. All I want to do is take soak in the tub, go back to bed, sleep and eat all day. Which is just not feasible right now with the complete turmoil that my house is in (have I mentioned that we’re packing up all of our shit to “stage” our house so we can sell it?)
So I think I’ve made my decision. I am not going to continue with the training group that is pushing forward to the Portland marathon in October.
This week is a 10 miler, and then next Sunday, July 5, begins the “split.” The marathoners will continue a push/fall back schedule and the non-marathoners will still meet for a one-hour run, timed to finish with the marathoners for the group seminar.
So this week I think I’ll skip the group (for the first time ever since starting! which for me, Ms. Quitter, is, like, unreal) and go for my own run (six miles) and then next week be a member of the One Hour Club.
I think.
Or I may wake up at 6:30 a.m. and decide I’m running a fucking marathon. Though chances of that? Are slim.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
You’re not quitting, you’re making the plan work for you. Trust me, running for 6 miles is anything but quitting. And you’re smart enough to realize that if the workouts don’t fit into your life that you’re going to start seeing them as a chore instead of something you enjoy doing which will cause you more problems in the long run. Life has to be in balance and if “slacking off” w/a 6 mile run helps you to function better for the rest of your life then it sounds like what you need to do.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Are you near Bend? One of my girlfriends lives there, and she participated last weekend in the 1st Annual Bend Beer Run. There was a mandatory beer stop at each mile marker. Definitely on my calendar for next year.