I did do my run today, as mentioned in the previous post. Today's was 5 miles. Nothing fancy. No speedwork or hills, just 5 miles. Went pretty smoothly, particularly since the cold front is still in place. In fact, I finally caved and turned on the heat because I don't want to get sick again if I can avoid it. That's how great this cold front is.
In the small pond during today's run I thought that I saw three ducks standing on an alligator. Alas, the three ducks were standing on a partially submerged sandbank. But how awesome would that have been?
I have something slightly embarrassing to confess. It's my new motivational song. Now, I don't actually run with music on because I think that learning how to be bored is an important part of training for a long event. This may sound weird, but it's something that I observed when coaching rowing. It's very hard to concentrate sometimes while exercising. With crew, you need to be completely, 100% focused when you are in the boat. That can be really hard to do when you start, but I feel that it's part of becoming a better athlete. There are no distractions. When I started running, I felt the same way: that you should concentrate on....well.....for lack of a better word, the boringness it. But getting to a point where long runs are not boring is a good sign of progress. So I don't run with music (I do distract myself while running, just not with extras). I mentioned a few weeks ago that every so often, Bob Seger's 'Hollywood Nights' comes flying into my head out of nowhere -- actually that happened again today. I have no shame in this. In fact, I basically adore Bob Seger, so that's all good. My embarrassing song is much worse: Britney Spears 'Gimme More.' Yes. I just admitted that publicly.
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