Running Motivation | I Tri and Craft

I run.

I am a runner.

I run.

This was supposed to be the I completed week 9 post. But I didn’t.

Today we got some bad weather.

The snow isn’t so bad, but the ice is horrible. So I didn’t get to the gym and the super low temps aren’t conducive to me running outside. The wind is blowing like crazy dropping the temps down to single digits. It’s ridiculous.

But I will share that week 9 brought back intervals. And added 14 minutes to the run.

So the plan is to run for 10 min then walk for one. And repeat for a total of four times. With the addition of the warm-up/cool-down, that brings the total work out time to 54 minutes.

Sunday’s Run

Stopping for a minute is hard. Really hard. I found it was easier to continuously than to stop and start again.

I needed lots of coaching from myself.

10 minutes seemed long, telling myself only three more songs. Not as long.

One step at a time. Left foot. pound. Right foot. pound. Left arm forward. Right arm forward. Breathe in. Breathe out.

Keep. On. Running.

Wed’s Run

C25K interval information can be found here

Happy Running

This is hard.

This time I don’t mean the running part. Yes, that is hard, but what is really hard is the commitment. I skip one day that I was supposed to run and I almost can’t start again.

I was supposed to run on Wed evening, but I didn’t. No good reason, I had a lot to do at home. But I always have a lot to do at home. Stuff always needs to be done.

Thursday night I didn’t want to go. I was tired, I didn’t sleep well the night before. My Little Big Man said “lay wiff me, jis for a minute. If you donna lay wiff me for a minute I will keep coming outa my room” What’s a mom to do?

I slightly fell asleep almost instantly, I was drooling. I was in there for about fifteen minutes. Then he told me I could go.