Mid Week, “does running ever get easy?”
Well I've been a little inconsistent with this lately but hope to get back on it now that school in back in session and the kids aren’t climbing all over me begging me to go down the slip and slide with them. The nice thing is that it has let a lot of stuff build up for me to ramble about. First things though the midweek workouts are posted .
You might notice that I linked back to the old site. I haven’t added that page yet to the new site. I had to abandon the old one as it wouldn’t let me edit anything but it functions except when I go to edit it I get some kind of data base error. Anyway in the long run this is better because I was able put this one together so that I have more control over such things.
So back to business, you’ll notice that the workouts the next couple of nights is the 2 mile pace run. For those running a marathon early next month this will really be your last test before your race. You have some workouts left but nothing like this where you have to put it on the line, focus and get it done after having run a race recently and had a long run a few days ago. Everything after this is all cake. You’ve got great weather and might be the last pace run this year where its light out the weather is warm so make the best of it I say.
There are a lot of new members of the group who will be doing this for the first time. I can’t think of a better way to get a grip on where you are fitness wise. From here you can only get faster, so put it in cruise control and do what you can, making sure to keep in control and run within your ability and finish strong and build from here.
Someone asked me the other day “does running ever get easy?” Well you know if you want to get better no it’s always going to have hard moments. As you get faster the effort is still the same. I think though as you get fitter your tolerance for harder stuff gets higher. Also as you get those better times, that’s the reward that makes it worth it. Knowing that you can run faster and further than when you started with the same effort is a very nice feeling and is very rewarding but it never gets to the point that you feel like there is no effort but I think it is very satisfying. So just keeping plugging along and you’ll reach your goals and the satisfaction that come with it which I think always makes it seem easy.
You might notice that I linked back to the old site. I haven’t added that page yet to the new site. I had to abandon the old one as it wouldn’t let me edit anything but it functions except when I go to edit it I get some kind of data base error. Anyway in the long run this is better because I was able put this one together so that I have more control over such things.
So back to business, you’ll notice that the workouts the next couple of nights is the 2 mile pace run. For those running a marathon early next month this will really be your last test before your race. You have some workouts left but nothing like this where you have to put it on the line, focus and get it done after having run a race recently and had a long run a few days ago. Everything after this is all cake. You’ve got great weather and might be the last pace run this year where its light out the weather is warm so make the best of it I say.
There are a lot of new members of the group who will be doing this for the first time. I can’t think of a better way to get a grip on where you are fitness wise. From here you can only get faster, so put it in cruise control and do what you can, making sure to keep in control and run within your ability and finish strong and build from here.
Someone asked me the other day “does running ever get easy?” Well you know if you want to get better no it’s always going to have hard moments. As you get faster the effort is still the same. I think though as you get fitter your tolerance for harder stuff gets higher. Also as you get those better times, that’s the reward that makes it worth it. Knowing that you can run faster and further than when you started with the same effort is a very nice feeling and is very rewarding but it never gets to the point that you feel like there is no effort but I think it is very satisfying. So just keeping plugging along and you’ll reach your goals and the satisfaction that come with it which I think always makes it seem easy.
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