I knew pretty early I was going to take today off. The day was busy with holiday events, including the kids looking for eggs, prepping food for a meal with family and friends, collecting with them in the afternoon. I'd be lying however if I said I did not think about doing the MAF test today. I would have like to have, particularly to avoid the label that Kerrie has appropriately dropped on me ;-). But the need for the rest, the family events made it pretty easy to take a break today from running. And yeah, the snow that showed up last night (that had completely vanished by this evening) made it easier to not get up for that 0730 run. But, I would have like to have seen how I had progressed with MAF training over the last couple of weeks ... I will look to do that soon.
I have been thinking about this whole blogging thing and reminding myself why I do it. It is pretty easy for me to blog when training is going well, or I am racking up some miles. It is harder when I am struggling. I started it as an on line training log, to capture this journey, because I suspect I may want to look on it some day. I also felt that while no one might read it, by putting it in a public forum, it held me accountable to an open standard of what I was doing. Yes, this is just a mental trick ... but it works for me.
This past week was 56 miles on the week. 259 on the month and 916 on the year. I spent 45 minutes in the evening doing light core, and stretching.
I knew pretty early I was going to take today off. The day was busy with holiday events, including the kids looking for eggs, prepping food for a meal with family and friends, collecting with them in the afternoon. I'd be lying however if I said I did not think about doing the MAF test today. I would have like to have, particularly to avoid the label that Kerrie has appropriately dropped on me ;-). But the need for the rest, the family events made it pretty easy to take a break today from running. And yeah, the snow that showed up last night (that had completely vanished by this evening) made it easier to not get up for that 0730 run. But, I would have like to have seen how I had progressed with MAF training over the last couple of weeks ... I will look to do that soon.
I have been thinking about this whole blogging thing and reminding myself why I do it. It is pretty easy for me to blog when training is going well, or I am racking up some miles. It is harder when I am struggling. I started it as an on line training log, to capture this journey, because I suspect I may want to look on it some day. I also felt that while no one might read it, by putting it in a public forum, it held me accountable to an open standard of what I was doing. Yes, this is just a mental trick ... but it works for me.