#lazy runner

I’m gonna drop down from the full marathon to the half. My training, for lack of better words, has been shitty.

I can’t seem to find the motivation to get to the gym and hash out the miles on the treadmill. That in turn has left me feeling completely stressed out about training. I want to enjoy training and I’m not anymore. A half marathon seems way more doable.

I felt like I needed to stay on this train of doing extreme things after IM Lou. I don’t. I don’t know why I put that pressure on myself to do so. I’ll look at marathons for the fall and maybe train for that. I’ll have better weather, no more icy roads to actually run on. But we’ll see how I’m feeling at that point.

I don't post like I used to, but when I do it's a long one.  Very busy lately .   

Yes, my run week starts on Wednesday morning, so what.  6+ miles done.

Runs for the next few weeks are going to be special.  As I've said recently I'm registering for a little 5k that I do every year for a charity that I support (Kids in Distress).  As I also might have mentioned is that my father in law has moved back with his family from Brasil and is also a runner.  Difference being is that he's been running for many more years than I have, he is innately competitive, and he does HIIT (Orange Theory) training just about 5-6 times a week. Where I do bodyweight stuff, run 2 MAYBE 3 times a week and weight lift 1 MAYBE 2 times a week.

We mentioned this 5k to him and he's going to register. Right away he was asking my 5k time, which I don't actually know anymore (I'm hoping it's around 25 or 24 minutes). I didn't want to tell him any time, to me my times are private, that is why I rarely reveal my times even on my page.  I just think I don't like comparing myself or other comparing themselves to me. That's my opinion.  I would never want to put anyone down and I don't like feeling like I'm slow and not putting enough effort to beat THAT guy.  Sometimes seeing others splits motivates me to push harder, then there's other times where I just feel like a turtle compared to some of you guys' times.  A lot of you guys a true athletes.  Fuck it, we're all athletes just at different levels. 

So on this mornings run I tried to incorporate some Fartlek.  I noticed that I have lost some fitness even from a few months ago.  I hate running fast, but I know it's a necessary evil if I want to reduces my split times. We'll see what comes of this plan.  

I'm planning on adding a run day to my 2 day a week run.  This one will be a shorter 3 miler at my fastest possible pace without hitting my threshhold.  I figure 1/2 mile warm up and pick it up from there.

Short (fast) run planned for Thursday afterwork and a morning 7 on Friday.

I am a total cold weather runner. And it's finally the perfect running weather. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to leave the warmth of my quilt the past two mornings. My clothes are all set out and waiting to go. It's just so warm under the covers. But I solemnly swear I will get my slow hiney out of bed tomorrow morning and run at least 3 miles.

And then I will enjoy pizza guilt free during poker tomorrow night.