I know I've been slacking....the next two weeks will be focused on getting back into a routine so I can begin training again (I stopped to think about that - if I really NEED something to get me going again and it feels good to actually think that I don't! I might always need a little break after training and running a race (different from racing!), and it just so happens that now it's approaching time to start training if I'm going to run Akron in September!!). Anyway, so I went for a run this morning (another tangent - it was so nice to leave in the afternoon work and know I'd already run! woo!) and I'll admit....it's been hard. I'm paying for my weeks off. My pace is off and just my normal ish is MIA, but as I was running, I began to think about how aside from "getting it done," a morning run is such a good predictor of the day...even better, let's say, than your horoscope (not to say I don't live by mine...).
When I started my run this morning, it felt fresh and good and I naturally thought, "This is easy. I've got this." It's not long, however, before I realize - ohhhh boy I'm going too fast! There are the mind games that throw me, the good songs that lift me, the ups and the downs. When I count the landmarks, it crawls by, but when I lose myself in the song, in my natural thoughts and I'm just running, just being - it's so perfect! When I know the final incline up before I'm done is coming, as always, I psych myself out...waiting, knowing, anticipating..but then I remind myself that I can do it, that I've done it before, and that I, of course, will do, because aside from how easy it would be to stop and give up...I know I can't.
And that's exactly how my days go these days, so as you can imagine, it feels pretty good see it end as a success all before 7am :O)!
