Work is just sucking the energy right out of me these days. Seven hours on your feet at a baseball doubleheader is draining (and we're playing at the 2-3 days a week at home) plus with only a month left in all the spring sport seasons anxiety/tension is high for all the injured kids and coaches. And it's taking a toll on me unlike it has the last 2 years and the area that is suffering?
My running. I'm having trouble mustering up the energy to run in the morning because it seems like no matter how many hours of sleep I get I wake up tired. I'm having trouble finding the motivation and energy to run when I get home from work (around 6 pm on a good day).
I'm hoping to make some progress this week though. I'm not focusing on when I get my miles in, and to some extent during the week not worrying about how many miles each day since I have my last 20 miler on Sunday, I'm just focusing on running.
I'm going back to a philosophy/mantra that worked for me in the past, and I'm not sure why I abandoned it, that came from a simple phrase a friend said to me: run your plan. So this week my plan is to run 4-5 days and get my 20 miler in on Sunday. I'm not gonna be concerned about paces, number of miles, what days I run during the week, my only focus is 4-5 (probably 4 at this point) days of running, run 20 on Sunday. The statistics will be what they will be because I'm bogged down right now and I need to do what ever it takes to find some traction.
3 comments:
When work and life are wearing you down, you need to make adjustments to the running schedule. Better to get the important work outs in (the 20 miler) and fit in what you can for the rest. Your plan is a good one.
Perhaps getting a couple miles in before work, and a couple after? Instead of trying to get longer runs in before/after. Then you would have a couple miles out of the way in the a.m. After work you would mentally feel up to doing just a couple more miles and then maybe you would feel good while you are out there and end up doing more?
Yep, there's a sweet spot in between religiously following a training schedule and totally free-balling it. I like your high level goals. Good luck!!
Keep in mind that you are still a rat in Selye's cage and that you must make certain that your eustress and distress are managed sufficiently for recovery.
Regardless of your expectations, your event is a science experiment and you need to set your goal performance based on the actual trainin that you accomplish, so scale it rather than truncate it.
you're still a stud.
--erin
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