Since I didn't have my headphones to distract me, I thought about a lot of things on this run: 1) I felt slow and unmotivated, and looking back at my own blogs, I sense the pattern that I always feel slow and unmotivated the week before my period. That's one nice thing about this blog--I have a record of how my workouts went. I think that my pace here was probably slightly under 10 min pace, but only slightly. I'm glad I didn't bring my watch because I didn't stress about how slow I was going.
2) I need to do a better job of recording how I feel during a run. Sometimes on the blog I just write down my distance and pace, and that's not enough for me to analyze a pattern 3) I like this blog. Even though my running over the winter was inconsistent because of my early January forced respite, I know I ran more this winter than I have in 3 years (or maybe ever, I'm not sure. I know that year I was running more miles during January, but I think I lost a little fitness in Feb, then had to rebuild in March). And I know that part of the fact that I stuck with it, even though I didn't always feel like it was because I knew that Carolyn was going to be commenting on my blog :) 4) I think I am going to concentrate on keeping fit for 1/2 marathons for the time being. I don't have the time to be serious about a marathon right now. While I still feel uncompetetive (and I don't really care that much to BE competetive) I would like to someday actually be able to RACE a 1/2 marathon instead of just being able to run. I know that this one in April will be one that I just run for the heck of it. 5) I enjoy running not because I am fast or ever want to be fast, but I am always so thankful that I CAN run. 6) I'd like to move somewhere it is 70 degrees all year round. Yesterday was beautiful and sunny (except it was windier than I thought it was going to be).
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