Scenes from a Run

I haven't written in a while because I've been in a bit of a funk. I won't bore you with most of the reasons, but one of them was due to a strained muscle in my left leg that made running, hell, even walking, an unpleasant experience. So after running in pain for a week, I took a week off, did yoga, iced, taped and rested. It helped. Got back on the horse this week and it's rough. I'm still so new to this that taking a break throws me completely off. I felt my motivation wane, had those thoughts of "who do I think I am, trying to be a runner!", or "you can't be a runner, you are always hurting yourself", or any other negative thought you may want to insert.

It's as I've said before, running is so mental! Your head will SO try and talk your body out of doing the run. You wouldn't believe the number of reasons my brain can spew out at 4:30am as to why I should not get up and go for a run. It's amazing. You just have to go on autopilot, put your clothes on and just not think about it. My new favorite quote about this is: Commitment is more important than mood. You ain't kidding.

So I just got up this morning and did it. Tried to get out of my own head. It was threatening to rain the entire time, but I got in 30mins. And it felt decent. And I was glad I was out there. And here are some things I saw along the way.....

 

 

 

 

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit".