Friday, December 12, 2008

Eating My Words

40 minute run, piece of cake I said. It will be fast and done before I know it. I should know better than to be cocky. Right from the start yesterday, my run was a struggle. My legs hurt and my shins where just taunting me to try and run faster and longer. Somewhere around 20 minutes into the run the inner dialogue went something like this "maybe you should slow down, walk more. No slowing down is for wimps. Boy my shins are starting to hurt, this is just a training run, yes but you've become a run/walker..." It's at that point that I realized, was my ego really going to push me to the point of injury and vomit for a freaking training run? Seriously? Shouldn't this running thing be fun? What's one bad run? One bad run was yesterday 40 minutes 3:37 miles. Tomorrow could be a different story....

3 comments:

Aka Alice said...

Yeah...that running's a bitch sometimes isn't it.

You're right, tomorrow will be a different story. It always is. (right?)

phillips phamily said...

Hey-
I just saw you on my followers list, and I'm going to start training for the ING half marathon here in Atlanta in March. Any pointers? Good place to get new shoes?

phillips phamily said...

Thanks for the info and good luck with your training!