Took the day off from running - hopefully the last one as the season starts up on Monday and the body will feel healthy throughout the year! Ended up swimming for a bit - 10 mins was all I could handle; both mentally and physically. Then I pool ran for another 5 minutes pretty hard. It got the heart rate moving and I was tired. Anyway, not as good as a run, but at least I did something with my life.
Pretty scrubby week, but I am alive. Had a few brief thoughts about running the marathon (as the end of May was the last time to register for my free elite entry. The pull was that I will be a master and maybe I could do pretty well against the old guys,. But anytime I thought about it, I never had an excited feel. Not once did I feel like it would be fun to train for a marathon. So in the end, that feeling won out and I decided not to enter. I really have no direction with my running; but the interesting thing is that I am at peace with that. I am much more interested in what my kids (both personal and team) are doing than in my own running. I guess I've reached that point in life.
Goals for next week: have a great start to the XC season! It should be such a fun one.
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