Some weeks it just doesn’t go to plan, even with the best will in the world.
Many of you will be able to relate to the struggle of balancing busy lives with some form of training programme (in my case, training is very fluid!)
These past few weeks I’ve been on child taxi duty for most of it, while my husband works away. The cold nights have left me completely disinterested in even heading out to the shed for a dreadmill session, and it’s a mix of the post-January-February-hangover, and simply just not having the time to get out for a meaningful session.
Day to day I’m trying to fit in my work hours, get the children where they need to be, and keep them and the dogs alive and happy.
It’s made me feel RUBBISH. As much as I say it doesn’t matter if I miss a couple of days, missing a week of any decent training runs has an impact on me and my internal monologue.
Whereby I’m usually very much of the “you can do it” mindset, I’ve been starting to tell myself “you’re losing it”.
Who am I comparing myself to? The other Dragon’s in Training on Strava, super quick 5km runners, mostly men. You can see why I’ve been getting inside my own head.
Yesterday I literally had to drag each leg out of bed to run a route I usually relish. Three miles in and I was hating every step. I changed tactic for the second half, I put some music on – something I rarely do as I like to be present in the moment. God did it help! I was bouncing up the hills, motivation was slowly creeping back. Then, home for a shower, a quick turn around to drive to Warminster and Run4Emily
A great turn out, but my heavy legs only had chance for one three mile loop before I had to get home.
Yesterday was a slow run day, but necessary day for getting my head back to where it needs to be. It’ll be more short sessions – intervals, treadmills, hill reps mixed in now. The long runs are great, but my goodness they take time and we are all short on that!
This Dragon in Training is still very much in the game!
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