Monday, September 27, 2010

Re-thinking it all

After pressing “publish” on yesterday’s post, I spent a lot of time thinking about my wanting to back out of the Army 10 miler. After a long chat with a friend from home, I realized that my problem is not running, it’s the pressure that I’ve let the running put on me. What happened to the days when running made me feel like this?

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Ok, well that’s beer in my hand so of course I was feeling good…

So today, I decided to go for a short run with just a watch, and when I ended, I ended. I didn’t pay attention to the time, I didn’t pay attention to the mileage, I just ran. And it was all good until a Marine (he had the haircut and a Marines t-shirt on) blew by me in front of a line of traffic!! I can only imagine what that looked like!

Anyway, I’m feeling better today. Little by little and hopefully I’ll get back to this:

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4 comments:

  1. I say run the race - for you :) And for fun :)

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  2. If it's not enjoyable, don't force it. You look so happy! And gorgeous! :-)

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  3. There's my boilermaker buddy . . . yay!!

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  4. Always run for yourself first! You'll get back there again. Wish I was going to be around for the Rockville 10k this year :(

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