07 October 2011

Eating Myself Into A Tryptophan-Induced Coma

Between work and time with my family I won't be online much this weekend so:

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!  

I'll need try to run a bit in the next three days, but mostly I'm looking forward to my mum's dinner on Sunday - turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, brussels sprouts (yup, I like them) and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving 2011 brought to you by Spud's hand-print turkey.

06 October 2011

Three Things Thursday

1.  I ran on Tuesday.

2.  I ran last night in the rain with Colin and Spud.

3.  I ran today!  My legs are tired and appreciate the pink CEP socks I won last week.

05 October 2011

Almost Wordless Wednesday: New Course!

The BMO Vancouver Marathon has new routes for the full and half marathons!  Will you be joining me 6 May 2012?


04 October 2011

Getting Out The Door

This is the first time I'm "recovering" from a slump.

I hate it.


I am not fast.  I have never been fast nor have I really pretended that I am.  Sure, there have been some seemingly speedy times on my HRM, but they generally correspond with going downhill.  The only time I ever felt fast was last spring when I convinced my friend to run all out at the end of a tempo run to concentrate on something other than some personal stuff.  But that was more because I was being a good friend than it being anything I could sustain in the long run.

Dropping down from being a slow runner to an even slower runner is hard.  Not so much physically.  It's actually kind of nice to just plod along.  But, mentally, it's the pits.  As much as I thought I'd accepted the slow runner in me I haven't completely.  She's still there and I really want her to go away.  That's going to take some work.  And it's work that I'm not willing to do right now.  

My goals are small.  Run for an hour.  Run 4 days a week.  For now I'm just working on getting out the door.  


 

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