I’m still having difficulties motivating myself to run in the morning and I’ve finally found out why.
I keep setting myself longer and longer distances and I can’t keep going further each time.
It’s getting brighter, later in the morning and it just isn’t feasible to be running 15 miles at that time.
I live in a small town and I can only run long if I go into the countryside where there isn’t much lighting at all.
I can’t be running around here with a miners cap on. The locals are quite superstitious and might mistake me for a dayglo Djinn and put their foot down hard on the pedal when they see me waving to them from the roadside.
I am not going down to the power plant by the seafront before daybreak either.
I don’t wanna be fucked and mauled by a sett of glowin’, howlin’ Badgers.
Bored of the really long weekday runs
The great thing about the 20 mile run on Sunday is that it has freed me up a little to concentrate on going faster over shorter distances.
I think from now on I’m gonna go back to running 8 to 10 miles in the morning.
That is more than adequate.
I’ve just got into this insane fucking mindset where I don’t think a run counts if it isn’t over half marathon distance.
By that logic, I would be running 30 miles before work in 2016 and I’d still be disappointed that I didn’t run the 29th mile in a sub 9 minute mile.
I’ve really lost the plot and my mind with it.
Not giving up running even though I’ve felt like it.
I haven’t really felt like myself in quite some time.
I think I’m exhausted from all of the training and for a while I’ve been wanting to just rest. The thought of those long morning runs has been draining me.
So instead of running 15 miles at 5am, I’m gonna get up at 6am and do 8 miles and work on my speed. I need to adapt to the weather and work on my pace now that it’s cooler.
It will be a welcome change from running those crazy distances.
An 8 mile morning run won’t leave me walking into the office like I’ve shit myself.
It’s time to become realistic and start enjoy running again.
I am a damn fool.