WTH? WAS I THINKING?

Who, in their right mind, when hearing a co-worker say that they wanted to run a marathon, would VOLUNTEER to train and run the next local half-marathon with her? I don't think I was in my right mind at the time, but I did. WTH? Perhaps it was that I have ran a 1/2 before (3 years ago) and thought that maybe I could help her with the little bit of the anxiety that comes with actually deciding to do one. What I neglected to remember was that I told myself that I wouldn't do another one because it was too much damn work.

Don't get me wrong, I love to run....just on my own terms. I've tried to follow a training schedule, I really have, however they tend to get boring, and when I get bored....I get lazy. And I have been lazy..for the past couple of weeks actually. Yesterday I decided to scrap the whole training thing and just go out and run...and it felt great not having to worry about the total mileage for the day or the pace. When I started out this morning, my motivation was renewed....after all, I had made a promise and I was going to stick to it. My new training program is to now just keep pace with the tunes that come up on my iPod. It is on shuffle mode, so there is no way of knowing what song will come up at any given time. So, after a short warm up, I was ready to really get moving and decided the next song would set the pace....... MISTAKE! The song that came up had to have been the LONGEST SONG ON THE FREAKING PLANET, a song I am currently not very fond of with a pace must faster than I recall.... Thankfully the following song was a much slower pace so I had a chance to recover. But again, came the thought of WTH? was I thinking.

I know, I know...when it is all said and done I will have this great sense of accomplishment and I will feel good about fulfilling my promise to a friend. But right now I am just hoping that my screaming calves and hamstrings will allow me to get out of bed in the morning.


Namaste