My spring 10K was going to be more muddy trail, I do not see myself shaving 4ish minutes off from last year. I was toying with running the San Jose 10K next weekend while there on business - I could get below the previous POT cut off but not 1:08. {And I am waiting for work to cancel all CA travel now that they have declared a state of emergency.}
) then I was sick again for three days this week with a fever, body aches, sore throat, headache and cough. I had someone doing work in my home that had just flew back from a two week tour of Italy. I was convinced I was gonna die from the Corona virus. My loving family was more concerned over who would inherit my horse than how I was feeling. I’m feeling better now and could probably run a few easy miles. This morning I put on my running shoes, walked in the house and, nope, toes were still in too much pain.
I’m not even going to look at my February totals. I don’t wanna know and I’ll pretend the month never happened. I have been sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. A never ending cold turned into a Sinus infection and bronchitis, a horse stepped on my toes (I’ll be losing at least two nails
Here‘s our newest addition. She is a 4yo registered Appaloosa named I’m Feelin Tipsy. Her barn name was Desi, but I hated it and renamed her Sky. She has dark dapples on her hindquarters which are hard to see in these photos.
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Welcome to the UK.... got a secret for you...... its not just our winter thats cold, wet and miserable!!. When the sun comes out enjoy the 6 days we have of it!!!.
I’m on the mend, thanks!
Maybe not what you wanted to hear, but I think part of the reason we train is so that we can learn how to endure a bad run when it falls at the worst time possible. On race day. You've put in all the training for this one day and then everything goes sideways on you. All your hopes and dreams vanish in front of you on the very day you were going to make it happen. I've been there. I beat myself up over a bad race for a few days afterwards. I examined it from all angles multiple times. I believe I identified the problems that helped things go sideways. And then I addressed them. I used to tell myself that if I could only run a sub 3 half marathon, then I would know that I could handle the marathon. Well on the race where I was going to crush that sub 3 half marathon, I failed. But I still bested my PR. And applied so many lessons learned from a bad race that helped make it so that the marathon wound up becoming my redemption run.
Yep. Bad runs happen to all us, sometimes a few of them even get strung together. But they do not define your running journey. Instead getting back out there again and doing your best to put it behind you defines that journey. And bad runs become distant memories that make race day dreams becoming reality all the sweeter.
Honestly, I don't think about bad runs much, if at all. Maybe it's the gift of perspective: I've been running long enough to know there will be good runs, bad runs, meh runs, and everything in between, just like anything else in life. It is what it is, I accept what's going on in the moment, and I move on.
