I think that it's important to learn something everyday either about ourselves or something else. I do this by reflecting throughout the day to discover what my take-aways are. I held on to the idea of "take-aways" from the Army. Take-aways is a reflection or something that you took away or learned from either the day or from a task. The term would be brought up in discussions such as, "what is your take-away?" I wanted to share my take-aways from my run this morning.
When I start the week out running I will start out a little slower and for a short distance, but by the end of the week I will have a "long run". I try to do this long run on Friday, but some of the time like this week I have to wait until Saturday to do my long run. All morning I had to convince myself to run because it was Saturday and it was cold. Eventually, I got motivated to go on my run by telling myself that I am trying to get ready for a marathon. Throughout my run I kept wanting to stop or cut my run short.
My first take-away from my run this morning was to resist temptation. I needed to resist the temptation to stop and walk or to cut my run short. I know that if I miss even one day of training I wont be as good as I would be as if I would have trained the extra day; I will regret missing that one day. I also know that stuff happens and there are times when days off are actually needed. At the end of the training period all of those days will build up and it will be noticed on the day that it counts; marathon day. Again, Resist!
My second take-away this morning was planning. Although, I got motivated and stay motivated, about halfway through the run my shoe came untied forcing me to stop anyhow. I quickly stopped, tied my shoe, and kept running. I didn't allow myself to allow this one moment of "having" to stop cause me to stop or slow down altogether. Unforeseeable times are going to happen. However, I could have tied my shoe better or what I normally do is tuck my shoe laces into my shoe. Planning ahead could have prevented this stalled moment, but even worse I could have stumbled even worse causing more damage. It happens, but it is better to plan ahead for those moments when we are stalled or stumble.
Finally, my third take-away was to enjoy going down the hills. On my long run days I hit the road and try to take different routes. Most of the time these routes are routes that I've never ran before. I try to be familiar with the routes so that I don't get totally lost. Nonetheless, there were some really good hills on this route today and hills are good for building endurance. Going up the hills aren't always enjoyable and the steeper the grade the more struggle there is. But! Going down that hill is more enjoyable and can put the cruise control on. There is always another hill so, enjoy the scenery and catch your breath going down hills and you will be better prepared for the next hill.
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