This is a question people love asking me now that I'm all healed up. Well it ISN'T going.
I'm not running....like at all!
As we last left off, I talked with my coaches about the next step for me getting to my goal of qualifying for Boston. We've decided that Philly in November will once again be the race I'm going to run to qualify.
Training will resume, once again, in May. Once training starts up again it's all running all the time and while I missed it when it was taken, so abruptly, from me I've decided running and I are on a break! I still miss it at times and I can run if I want, but I'm using this time to enjoy other activities like winter hiking, indoor training with Ruby, outdoor biking when the temps are "warm" enough, lifting...anything. Training can be taxing and monotonous in a sense so while I have the flexibility to alter my workouts I'm doing that and loving it....sort of!
I LOVE the routine/structure and discipline of training and I feel like it's all I've been doing for a long time so this break I'm on is often as tough as it is liberating. While I love having freedom I'm TERRIBLE at making decisions and having choices. When it came time to paint my house I gave the painters the choices to make....I'm not good at choices. Some days I wake up and base my workouts around washing my hair. If my hair looks decent and can forgo a washing I'll lift (if there's no yoga available).
Furthermore, I'm not to proud to say it's a bit too cold to run outside....20 degrees is my cutoff....any by 20 I mean it can't be 20 with a real feel of 8....it needs to be 20 and feel 20 ha ha!
I don't mind running in the cold, but single digit running is less than fun and quite frankly winter running can be dangerous. When it's this cold I think every dark puddle looking thing is black ice, there are snowbanks making the roads narrow, and people don't know how to drive when there's even a dusting of snow....I can't trust them to drive AND be mindful of me running. I will say while I'm not running in the cold I am buying winter running gear with the hopes to motivate me to get out there ha ha!
Coming Soon: A post about winter running....for those brave enough to do it! :)
"We were on a break" -Ross Geller ha ha
