PM: Boston marathon was cancelled, so I decided to get out some much needed frustrations on the running end of my life. Ran a pretty decent treadmill workout. 3.5 miles on the treadmill at 5:00/mile straight, then right into a 30 second recovery followed by 6 intervals of hills on 10.0 incline at 90-95% effort, with 30 second active running recoveries at low incline. It. Felt. AWESOME. But then again, I was seriously motivated today.
Motivation is a tricky animal. Self-motivation is even more flighty. Extrinsic motivation at least sticks for a couple of days, but that intrinsic motivation, man, is it hard to re-focus that energy correctly. It really boils down to discipline. Today I was going to skip my run completely (after hearing about Boston being cancelled.) I went and bought a pizza, didn't run after work, and drove all the way home- just to find myself putting on my run clothes. Then checking the gym. Then putting on my shoes... and out the door I went.
Discipline is such an interesting beast. But not gonna lie, definitely went home and ate half of that extra large pizza. At least it felt earned!
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