Not a happy run today.
Was seriously ticked this morning after I finally made it home. But the only person to blame for this one was me. I knew I had a hard run to do today and I kind of blew it. Strike one was that I stayed up too late and I was tired from the week so should have been in bed in good time. But really...I found this book, I need to tell everyone about it, it is called "Rescuing da Vinci". A huge history buff right here and the book is about Europe's attempt to save their artwork and their culture and how they did it before the Nazis got their hands on it. For example, they encased many of the great marble statues (David, Moses etc.) in cloth and bricks to hopefully save them from bombing. They hid thousands of paintings and artifacts in mines. It really was fascinating, but by me getting into this book, helped to ruin my run this morning.
Strike two was that my heart rate would not register correctly on Garmin. I had to stop several times to adjust the strap. When I started out, it was reading 160...huh? Took me several attempts to get it right.
Strike three was that I was supposed to be doing 8 minute intervals at my tempo heart rate. Once Garmin got figured out, and I started the first tempo interval, I just could not make my legs go any faster. It was a really awful feeling. Then Strike 4 was that when I looked down at Garmin, I saw that I had forgot to reset the display to show me the lap time. I could not remember when I started and just frankly gave up on the whole thing. Walked about 30 minutes to get home almost crying the entire way!!
So there you have it. A tough one and I just quit. Not happy about doing that as I have that half marathon in a couple of weeks. Was really looking forward to running under 2 hours....now I am not so sure. I may have to readjust my goals and just do the run and my plan B has always been to register in the Regina half marathon in the fall and give it a good solid effort at that one. ARGH!!!!!
4 comments:
Breathe. It is one workout. You have been making deposits to the BANK OF HALF MARATHON for a while now. You have been doing speed work outs as well. ALSO - REMEMBER that this half is not your A race. You have blown NOTHING as your A RACE is still your ultimate target. Although, I feel for you on the 30 minute near tear walk.
Try to fix it. Consider this your ez run for the week (if you have one in your plan - switch it with this workout and try this workout again later - when you have had the sleep you need and you are in a fresh mind set.)
Remember - you learned something today - that is ultimately going to help you train better for the A RACE.
Breathe.
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others."
You've had the courage to admit you weren't prepared for this training run. As Jenna says, it was a TRAINING run. Now have the courage to stop beating yourself up about it. Learn from it, prepare better next time.
And now I've got another book to go find. I'm in the middle of Justinian's Fleas, and have to be careful when I pick it up, cause I don't want to put it down.
Where are you on your rest schedule? As I've just discovered, a little rest does wonders for mental attitude and how your body feels.
Keith is so right -- getting enough rest can turn you from a depressed mess into a positive lunatic.
This utter crappyness does have its benefits: YOU OVERCAME EVERY ONE OF YOUR OBSTACLES!!! Sure you felt like total shit, and everything felt like it was going down the toilet, but the bottom line is, YOU DID IT!
This is the metal fortitude training bit that comes into play. Like Jenna said, this is your training run. Things are supposed to get wacky out there so we know just what to do and how to react on race day.
I guarantee you that you are one tough cookie - all the different hats you wear as worker, wife, Mom, and athlete means you have had a tonne of life experiences. Out of all the things that went wrong, one huge thing went right -- you never quit. You never backed down. You could have -- you had every reason too. You were exhausted, your equipment failed you, and you were crossing the threshold of nuclear melt-down, but you didn't give up.
I'm proud of you for not quitting and finishing what you started!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
i have to agree with the gang. this was one teeny weeny little workout in the whole scheme of things. we ALL have shitty days where we say 'f**k it!'. it's perfectly acceptable to do that.
try not to focus on the outcome of the race in a couple of weeks. focus on how you are feeling now.
revel in all that you learned today. in fact, think of it as a positive workout because you learned of some issues that you will want to be aware of for future training days. i say that calls for a snoopy happy dance!
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