| Location: Erie,CO, Member Since: Jan 01, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Unknown Running Accomplishments: Pikes Ascent: 2:37.x
Pikes Marathon 4:32:x
Do PRs count if they are older than 10 years? Short-Term Running Goals: Preparing for Pikes 08 Long-Term Running Goals: Run lots of mountains and passes, the Grand Canyon, and the Burro Race World Championships Personal: I have nine toes for the same reason Paul McMullen has eight |
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 I have talked with TG about a concept of fitness spiraling up, and fitness spiraling down. You like your fitness to be on a consistent uptick, or spiraling up, but, you might have ticks where there are slight downward spirals even in those longer term upswings. In school, we called this dynamic metastable equilibrium, but we don't need to get into such Thorson geomorphology concepts here.
I have been in a bit of a down spiral the last couple of days. It does not start with any one particular event, but for the sake of discussing it, let's say it has been my work. My work takes up a bit more of my time, and then so my training gets cut back a bit, which further frustrates me, which gets me unclear about my work, which then makes me lose focus for my workout, which then makes my diet slip, and then I sleep poor and then my next day's training is off ... and I get in this spiral.
Makes absolutely no sense, does it? “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” - Buddha. So these choices are part of my journey, part of my confronting my weakness, my humanity, my discipline, my desire to exercise self control - and when I see the weakness like this, as I have for the last 48 hours, it makes me realize how much work I have to still do. Breathe in, breathe out. Is any of the above really true? Or is just represent choices, implied and explicit I have made in that little shell of my head?
So today was an easy run, as I tried to get my head, my life, my running into a place where I felt more comfortable with it and really what is. I went easy at the tail end of the day on the creek path. Today this spiral stops. The BTR talk with all those mountain runners at Sherpa's was a nice mental clearing house (motivational) as well (more on that in an other post later).
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