Sometimes, you just have to get up and go! No thinking about it, no checking the weather or Facebook, or wrangling the cat for eye drops--just go!
That's what I did this morning, and it was probably the only reason I was able to make it out for my run this morning. I really wanted to stay in bed, I really wanted to cuddle with the cat. I really wanted to get out and run so there was something exciting that would happen in my day. And, I really didn't want to have to run at the hot gym again this afternoon!
This morning, I was surprised that I had 14 minute miles (includes my walking for a warm-up and cool down) but that I had almost even splits for my mile times! Wow! I wasn't even trying, but the splits were only a second off (mile 1: 14:06, mile 2: 14:07).
Gym today after work, I'm going to work on rowing! Yes, my new gym actually has rowing machines! I'm planning on trying workout 1 in my booklet of worksheets. I would like to incorporate rowing in to my cross-training routine.
Happy Friday!
I agree...just get up and do it. I have been really good at answering my alarm and getting out to run or across the house to the rower. I think that week of laziness after the Grand Canyon Half was either fatigue or an underlying illness that made me so tired and so easy to sleep another hour.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy you had a good experience on the rower yesterday. I've gone through those 24 workouts several times at the beginning before I wanted to go longer and farther. You should set up a logbook on Concept2 to record your meters. I never thought I'd hit a million meters (a special club online) when I started but after 6.5 million recorded lifetime meters, my goal is to hit 7 million this season. The current challenge this month (on Concept2.com) is to row a marathon. I will do the half same as I do with my running; that's over 21k meters. Then I will hook you up the online group I belong to, for nothing else than to kick some random stranger's butt and work your way up the leaderboard. Don't forget to record your rowing on Endomondo. Convert your meters to miles by dividing by 1609.344.
What's on your running schedule this weekend?