Since Colorado seems to be part of an arctic freeze, I took my run inside last night. I decided to run on the track as my right knee has been giving me a hard time on the tread mill. The run was a simple 3 miles, I told my husband, Neil, I’d be home in 30 minutes and found myself 42 minutes later still on the track? I kept wondering why the night before 7 miles had seemed almost easy and wondering what I had done differently in 24 hours to make this run seem like it would not end? After thinking about it all night this is what I have come up with: Could it have been? Recovery – after a longer run should I have scheduled a rest day? Diet should I not have ate Taco Soup – though I love Taco Soup I had made it with Beef and not ground Turkey as I normally do, could this be the problem? What kept sticking out was my entire outlook was not positive. First as I left to go to the gym, I had told Neil I’d be home in 30 minutes – realistically I needed to drive to the gym in the snow, I needed to check in, stretch and then actually run around the track 30 times. I’m a relatively new runner 30 minutes was not ample time so when I looked up and saw myself still at the gym I was disappointed with myself, however I’m the one who inadvertently set myself up for failure where as the night before I had given myself an hour and half, I was positive the entire run even to the point of saying to myself, “You rock!” and “Check yourself out,” when the muscles in my stomach and legs started to ache around mile 3, I told myself this is when the burn starts but to see results push through for a couple minutes and the pains would subside, it did and I kept going. So last night I learned to give myself time! Tonight I will go with positive outlook and see how the 2.5 miles goes.
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