Toughness and stupidity: are they mutually exclusive?
Set out to the Cinders today dressed for February weather. I had four layers on top, 3 on my legs, a hat and a hood. And believe it or not I was cold through the entire episode. When I started driving it was cold and cloudy. When I arrived at the cinder track it was cold, cloudy, windy and raining. My hands were freezing. Who brings gloves in May?
My thought pattern was the following. I didn’t do any running yesterday. I am racing on Saturday. Wednesday is the only day this week that I want to do serious training. So despite all these negatives I pushed on. I could not accept letting this day go by without any running. It was wet and cold and took a long time to achieve any fluidity. I did finally get to the point where I could do some 30-second pickups, 2 per lap on the half-mile track. I did five 30 second pickups. When doing these I count 75 strides , that equals about 100 yards. The total after all was 3 miles in 36:40. As I plodded on, I congratulated myself for being tough and chastised myself for being stupid at the same time.
I guess maybe these realities can be mutually exclusive!
PS : An article published yesterday by Runner’s World on Twitter added validity to Dr. Mirkin’s article in which he quoted studies that touted the benefits of the 30-20–10 Workout. (See my post from April 20th.) I will definitely be coming back to that workout.
Hey Robby:
Good luck in the 5K Saturday! Hope you can break 25 minutes … maybe even 24?