Laugh out loud.
Shocking how quickly it can sneak up on you. Within a half hour I knew I wasn't right. By 7 kms I took my first walk break; initially only to have a drink, but I stretched into a full minute. Shortly after I got going again I turned right so as to not get too far from home. By 8 kms I was walking again, and this time the game was up for good. I walked for an entire kilometre. My freaking heart rate was dipping close to 110 bpm while running, and yet I was gasping. I walked/jogged back home for a final count of 14 kms.
I thought I had backed off enough to get me back on track, but apparently not. I am still hoping that it's just from trying to do a long run the day after a hard bike workout. The same thing happened 2 weeks ago, and yet last week when I backed off on my bike workout, the long run was fine. Time will tell. The hardest thing for me to do is rest.
At the very least I am going to an 8 day schedule in the short term. I have 3 hard bike workouts per week, and one long run. The 8 days will allow every second day to be easy. At least until the Bay Race is over, and then I will reassess.
Anyway, it was indeed a great day for a run or a walk. At one point it reached 9 degrees. Lots of snow melted today, which is great. It makes room for the stuff that's apparently coming tomorrow!!! Along with minus 18 temperatures! Woohoo!!
run/walk, 14 kms
…and I like this quote a lot…
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."---Henry David Thoreau
Love
Peter
Shocking how quickly it can sneak up on you. Within a half hour I knew I wasn't right. By 7 kms I took my first walk break; initially only to have a drink, but I stretched into a full minute. Shortly after I got going again I turned right so as to not get too far from home. By 8 kms I was walking again, and this time the game was up for good. I walked for an entire kilometre. My freaking heart rate was dipping close to 110 bpm while running, and yet I was gasping. I walked/jogged back home for a final count of 14 kms.
I thought I had backed off enough to get me back on track, but apparently not. I am still hoping that it's just from trying to do a long run the day after a hard bike workout. The same thing happened 2 weeks ago, and yet last week when I backed off on my bike workout, the long run was fine. Time will tell. The hardest thing for me to do is rest.
At the very least I am going to an 8 day schedule in the short term. I have 3 hard bike workouts per week, and one long run. The 8 days will allow every second day to be easy. At least until the Bay Race is over, and then I will reassess.
Anyway, it was indeed a great day for a run or a walk. At one point it reached 9 degrees. Lots of snow melted today, which is great. It makes room for the stuff that's apparently coming tomorrow!!! Along with minus 18 temperatures! Woohoo!!
run/walk, 14 kms
…and I like this quote a lot…
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."---Henry David Thoreau
Love
Peter
You're walking, running, biking, talking, eating, living your great life. Remember.
ReplyDeleteI've read a bunch of posts all at once and I wonder if the strategy changes with how you're feeling at the moment or what you told yourself you had to do on a particular day. I may be way off base here (remember this is the couch potato talking), but it seems to me that you need an overall long-term plan with enough flexibility to accommodate the days you're feeling off in the short-term. Didn't you write something about long and short term things? Anyway, the whole point is, as Elly says, you're doing stuff and you need to celebrate that and not beat yourself up if you have to walk or turn around and go home.
ReplyDeleteAnd damn the snow! It really is time for it to stop!
Love,
gail