Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 46)

What I am about to write will sound like I am joking, but I assure you, I am not.  It is however ok to laugh when you read it, because I'm laughing at myself.  

Today, I was going to swim, but I couldn't get it in because I had to go buy new jeans for a 2nd date tomorrow.  I've lost 40 lbs since starting this journey, and my old jeans are anything but sexy.  I wanted some jeans that will show off my ASSets.  Because I didn't have time to swim, I decided to go for a quick run.  However, given that this was not a planned run day, I decided to take Salty's advice about mixing up the mileage, and running slower.  

(this is where you can laugh at me)

So, I'm running (if you want to call it that) at a VERY slow pace.  I tell myself I'm going to do 3 easy miles.  As I'm running, I'm already saying to myself, screw this - I NEED TO DO AT LEAST 4 MILES !!! Then the conflict in my head begins... should I turn at 3, or go to 4?  I normally do 5 minimum, so either decision is a super hard decision.  I run through the turn around for mile 3, then start feeling guilty, because I know I'm supposed to be going easy and short.  so I turn around where I know that I will be short of 4 miles.  

THIS IS WHERE IT GETS CRAZY!!! 

I literally am 1/2 way through my turn and I'm really struggling to force myself to turn around.  I start getting all this anxiety (and I don't ever get anxiety about anything) and I'm stressing out.  You see, I have this thing about setting goals and completing them, and since I decided I was going to go 4 miles, I felt I was cheating myself.  But the guilt from running more than the original planned 3 miles was killing me.  

I force myself to complete the turn, and for the rest of the run, I can't stop thinking about that stupid 2 tenths of a mile that I "cheated" myself out of!  I was feeling emotional about it.  I tried to laugh it off on the surface but I swear, inside, I was dying.  

So Salty - Please, Please remind / tell me why it's good that we run slow and easy?  What are the benefits of running slow? I easily could have ran 8 min miles and not been very sore - and I easily could have ran 6 full miles, maybe more.  Instead, I literally forced myself to run 3.82 miles in 37:24 for a 9:34 pace and it was the hardest run I have ever done.  It was hard to force myself to run that slow and harder to stop short of 4 miles.  

FYI - This week I ran Sunday - 5.6 miles (8:10 pace), Monday 10.1 miles (8:13 pace), Tuesday 5.3 miles (8:36 pace) then today 3.8 miles (9:34 pace).  Also - this story, and your answer are going on my blog.  

My issue would be round numbers.  I cannot do 6.3km I have to do 6.5 or 6.  No way.  I run an out and back on the weekends - up to 20km right now.  So I run for 10km then run back home, I look at the tracker on my phone app and is says I've done 19.4km so there we go, 600m running around the block.  Infuriating but I cannot let that go.

Bwahahahahahahahahah.  We are all sick.  I do the same thing, Jo.  I hate uneven numbers.

Yep. Running...biking...pumping gas. End in a 5 or 0 or keep going.  I got called to the gym daycare and had to end on a strange number the other day. Still bugging me.

Do you swim in a 25m pool?  What I do is count an up/down as opposed to an up and a down.  So if I'm doing 100's I count to 2 rather than four.  It also isn't so soul destroying.

I missed Masters tonight so I went for a run instead. I have attached a picture of the what I looked like when I finished. I love the sound of fresh snow crunching beneath your feet as you run. An enjoyable run.

ETA: BTW it was "warm" at -8F

I missed Masters tonight so I went for a run instead. I have attached a picture of the what I looked like when I finished. I love the sound of fresh snow crunching beneath your feet as you run. An enjoyable run.

ETA: BTW it was "warm" at -8F

Asalzwed - 2013-01-09 9:20 PM Got my track workout in tonight. Rainy and windy but the rain tapered off towards the end. The workout was much better suited for me; 2 x 1.5 miles @ 6:30 mile pace. I ran with a group of guys tonight. So funny how Magically our pace increased when we would go by any female at all boys I tell ya.

LOL.  Did you see this?

I heard camps open Monday, games likely to begin Jan. 19 unless the new contract gets agreed on sooner, then it could begin Jan. 15.  Should be interesting, the combinations of returning athletes: some have been playing all year in Europe or AHL, others have been doing ?(question mark)? training? Completely loafing?

'k, all caught up (again)....ummm, too much to add something to all topics so:

--Yay running every day--in the 9 days in a row I have ran, I have already noticed a change in how I feel towards running, still slow, but I am used to that; I just want to be able to keep on going and going, etc..

--YAY HOCKEY SEASON (kinda)--I'll take a few games at least rather than none. (Go PENS!) Go Canes!

AND...look what I found today: (ignore the dragon...)

Oh yeah--a good, not-so-good-for-me cereal, and peanut butter...nomnomnom. 

Well ... I pretty much only eat fiber one for cereal these days. If it's not Fiber One I stick to some pretty strict rules: less than 5 grams of sugar, at least 3 grams of fiber and at least 3 grams of protein.

I know, totally boring.