March not-check-in

[ell]

Hi Runners!

Hope you're having a great March so far! Mine sucks. I've lost my will to run. No I have no idea why. I've never been this unmotivated for marathon training since I started six years ago!

So tell me something good about your running today, why you do it, why you like it, whatever makes you happy when you run.*

* or just feel free to complain (about the weather, about how your favorite shoes have been discontinued, anything you want)

Comments

[linaelyn]

I hope your misery loves company, because... yeah, I'm not having the joy of running here, either. Which feels stoopid and horrible, because the weather is GORGEOUS, spring is sprung, there's nothing wrong with my body (besides the aspect of declining in cardio-shape from not running), my shoes fit and aren't worn out, and I have the time and energy to be running...

I just don't wanna.

I'm doing a bunch of core exercising and something my niece suggested called a "thigh slimming challenge" (HA!! It's bulked up both of our thighs really nicely, just like I told her it would.) And the furniture sanding project is making any upper body work... superfluous.

But I'm not running.

I figure it's a phase, and I'll grow out of it. Being unmotivated just happens sometimes, and for me, it often means that I just need to let go and do something else that I *am* motivated to do. My advice to you: follow your bliss. Even if it means you're not in great shape for the next marathon. You can always blow it off on the Day-of-Race, if it's just your own race, and if it's the relay? I have it on good authority that your teammates are VERY understanding, and are there for the teamness much more than the racing. We can be Team Runs-Not-So-Much! :-)

[ell]

Well, I have downgraded my May marathon from Boston Qualifier to fun run. (And yes running a marathon for fun does sound like crazy talk)

I'm doing a lot of aikido and that will have to do for now. Maybe when the weather improves I'll feel better about all this.

(But there might be an actual reason. I was at the doc for bloodwork last week because this whole feeling tired and unmotivated all the time has gone on long enough and we needed to rule out all the other things it could be. She said it was all fine, but then at the last minute ordered more iron tests given my past history. Then I got a call that I need to come in and see here this week again. The appointment is tomorrow and I will find out then if my iron levels have dropped again into the danger zone. So there might be an actual physical thing that I can do to fix it :-) )