As I was typing that title, the following title was cached: Mentally Peaking (Not!) So I've probably blogged about this before, but since I was not mentally peaking at the time, I don't remember it! I feel like I'm becoming a complete whiner here, but OMG, I am really having to push myself to do anything these days.
I was on vacation last week, and the first weekend I was without kids... and I slept a good 24 hours out of 48. As I explained this to a fried, he said, "Well, you deserved that!" I baked a cake Saturday night and I kid you not, I ate 3/4 of it by Sunday night! On Monday morning, I polished off the rest. A whole damn chocolate cake in a day and a half. As I proceeded to tell my friend this, he furrowed his brow, looked at me like a was crazy, and said, "Well, you didn't deserve that!" He wasn't saying I didn't deserve to indulge myself a little and enjoy some chocolate cake, he was sincere in saying my body didn't deserve be treated like that.
The following two to three days I turned into a sloth. I felt terrible! Monday morning I did an eight mile guilt run, which made me feel a little better, but not much (it just gave me the right to finish the cake). Physically, I just did not feel well.
My philosophy during times like that (for everyone) is to push through and get out and do something every day. I don't mean an eight mile run, just anything to get moving. Every day I would set my alarm for 7:00 a.m. and think, just go out and do my 2.5 mile loop with Amos... and every day (and I do mean every day!) I would turn my alarm off and go back to sleep.
I was (am?) really struggling right now... maybe a little burnout with all this heat, and I am so busy at work. I went back to work yesterday (after my week off), and managed to haul my ass out of bed this morning at 5:15 for by Tuesday morning 6.5 mile run. The odd thing is, whenever I do make myself get up early and run, I never regret it! When it's over I never think, "Wow, now I feel terrible, I really wish I wouldn't have done that." Quite contrary!
And on that note I'll end this post with another one of my favorite sayings... "The hardest part of running is putting on your shoes!" Just do it!
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I love that saying..... Just think how much easier it would be if all our running shoes had velcro tabs on them.... (haha) We could sleep an extra 2 minutes in the am. Your body must have needed that extra sleep on vacation, plus, you really didn't miss much with all that early morning heat and humidity. Cooler mornings are coming ..... I am a firm believer that cake is GOOD food, and I too, can eat a whole cake and NOT feel the least bit guilty about it !!
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