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Happy Monday and weekly check-in
Firstly:
Congrats to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
losingit and everyone who raced this weekend! If you haven't done so already, tell us how your race went, we'd love to hear about it and congratulate you!
Second:
Inspiring quote for today:
Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.
-Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner
And lastly:
Any difficult goals you're stretching for this season? How do you deal with the fall/winter blahs and bad weather if you're Northern Hemisphere and the transition to summer race readiness for those of you in the South?
Congrats to
losingit and everyone who raced this weekend! If you haven't done so already, tell us how your race went, we'd love to hear about it and congratulate you!Second:
Inspiring quote for today:
Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.
-Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner
And lastly:
Any difficult goals you're stretching for this season? How do you deal with the fall/winter blahs and bad weather if you're Northern Hemisphere and the transition to summer race readiness for those of you in the South?
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This winter, by Jan 1 I will run 1 mile in less than 8 minutes.
This is a big thing for me as I've always thought of myself as a slow runner and it's really difficult for me to transition to the idea that I could even be fast. 8 minute miles are some sort of mental barrier for me and I'd very much like to get rid of that artificial constraint on what I think I can do, so I'm going to train for short and fast for the next 3 months. Once I get rid of the mental issue, I can go back to my usual running routine, hopefully without that voice in my head that says I can't ever go faster than that...
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Week 1: 8x 30 sec hard / 1 min easy
Week 2: 8x 45 sec hard / 1:30 easy
Week 3: 8x 1 min hard / 1:30 easy
Week 4: 8x 1:30 hard / 1:30 easy
Week 5: 8x 2 min hard / 2 min easy
Week 6: 6x 3 min hard / 2 min easy
Each workout started with 2 easy miles. This really helped me! I was able to PR hugely in a 5K. I think that the very short intervals at the beginning, with long recoveries, allow you to focus on keeping form up during the fast running.
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I was intending intervals - but this is a nice targeted interval progression that will be much better than 4x400's...
I will give it a try and see how it goes. Maybe I can find a good Turkey Trot to test it on :-)
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Yay autumn!
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Race report to come.
Goals, hmm. This race accomplished one of them - a sub-3:40 marathon. I am hoping to manage a sub-3:30 marathon this spring. I have several more races coming up, and goals in all of them.
As far as winter goes, I think I find it easier to run in the fall and winter because I have fewer other activities (hiking, rafting, mountain biking) taking up my time! I also run better in the cold than in the heat.
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(Remember, you can always post here for moral support when you need it)
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I've been running a haphazard schedule, just trying to keep my legs and lungs strong in preparation for the winter asthma season. Usually, Monday 5K, Wednesday 7K, Friday or Saturday 5K.
Last week, I ran on Monday, but have been too depressed to run since. Just getting dressed and getting my kids to their events is an effort. (note: I'm being good about taking my antidepressant, and this depression is caused by a specific event in my personal life, last week. I am likely to be depressed about that situation for some time to come, though.)
How do you motivate yourself when it's hard to even contemplate the effort of tying your Asics?
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It's hard, sometimes. I've got a few things that help me sometimes:
- Make a plan to run with a person. Then I have to run because someone else is counting on me to show up
- Running schedules: It really helps me when I put things on my google training calendar. It somehow takes the onus off me to motivate myself. It's even more helpful when someone else makes the schedule (but that's my Catholic guilt kicking in and YMMV)
- I think about how good I know I will feel at the end when I'm all sweaty and the endorphins are kicking in. I know I'll feel better during and after.
- This one is weird, but sometimes I put on my running shoes and shorts just in case and wear them for doing other stuff, then when/if I get the energy level high enough - I'm already ready and I don't need that extra bit to get ready...
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I've been meaning to run with YK more often this fall. This gives me a great excuse, and the "schedule" will be dictated by "Have we done homeschool PE today? No? All right, then! Lace your sneakers!"
I am old enough and wise enough to remember that I *do* feel better when I run, even if I don't feel like anything could possibly ever be fun, ever again, blah blah blah, woe is me, think I'll go eat worms...
And Estel would love it if I wore my teeny little running shorts all the time. I'm just sayin'. ;-D
Thanks again for the good advice.
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Good luck getting through your depression, whatever it takes.
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I long to long for running again. :-} I appreciate your input and perspective, here, though. Thanks.
Getting through being depressed is going to be a "Time Heals All Wounds" exercise. Let's just say endings suck, but eventually I'll be able to see that it also makes life sweeter that all things in existence are finite.
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I would appreciate advice on this! I don't need a peptalk to make me feel better about Saturday's race, because I really did enjoy myself and I feel good about it. But I'm just not sure what to do next or how to deal with not having met goals I set earlier.
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If you want to get faster - join me in the interval plan that
Just a note - I still haven't come anywhere near as good as I did in my first 1/2 marathon 2 years ago. My running has improved a lot, my stamina is great, I love running, but still I'm 5 minutes or more off that time. I'm choosing not to worry about it and still set goals, just not that goal...
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And yes, I was looking at that interval plan and thinking I should give it a try. The weather's getting colder where I am and pretty soon I'll be doing most of my running indoors, so I think it'll be easier to keep track of distance and speed over the next few months than it has been over the summer when I running in a lot of different places outside and mostly measuring by time. I don't think I want to do a Thanksgiving Day race but maybe something in December or January, or maybe I will just wait on that for a while. Thank you for the ideas. :)
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October/November are my worst months for depression, and I'm trying to be very aware of it, since I know one of the things that help the most is getting outside during daylight hours as much as possible. I was thinking about getting up early (5:20 am - sunrise at 7:20 am) tomorrow to go for a run, but maybe I'll wait until afternoon just to catch more daylight.
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That said, I think I'm setting some running goals for late winter or early spring, thinking of a half marathon in February, perhaps.
The one kind of embarrassing thing that I could see keeping me motivated-guilted-happy to run? Buying winter running clothes (nice and cheerful ones, say, lululemon). Hey, I don't have too many cold-weather running clothes, and well, if I buy a couple of articles of spendy running clothing, I'd feel ridiculously guilty for not using them. ;)
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(If you find a good 1/2 in Feb/March, let me know, I'll be moving back to LI for about a month before moving overseas and I'd love to do one before I leave. (There's always the Shamrock Marathon and 1/2 in VA Beach in late March but that's a good ways from NYC)
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