Last week was the first week I was able to use my believe journal. I ran 24.5 miles last week. This is not a lot of running. Seeing a number this low ordinarily makes me mad at myself. I usually feel like running so little is going to cause me to become a huge failure and never achieve my goals but right now I am okay with only running 24.5 miles last week. I couldn’t run for a while and I was feeling so horrible before that so I have no idea how many miles per week I was running. I stopped logging miles back in October because I kept seeing how low my weekly mileage was. It was making me severely upset that I couldn’t run more than 35 miles a week without getting sick with a migraine so I just ran, didn’t write it down, and forgot about every run unless it was a workout. Now that I have been feeling somewhat better I am trying to run normally again but I am starting at ground zero. I am not mad though. I am seriously just happy to run at all right now. Running 24.5 miles last week is 24.5 miles more than I have ran in a really long time. I know that I will be running high mileage again soon so for now I just have to be patient. Using my believe journal and the gratitude journal I decided to start has really helped me to be less upset with running so little. Focusing on the good things that happen in my life every day has made a HUGE impact on my training. I am doing my best to increase mileage gradually and appropriately while monitoring how I feel and not making myself feel worse, and I am not upset with myself for running so little. I am actually excited to start training and setting goals again.
Here are some awesome non-running related things that happened in my life this week:
I wore some on my new clothes and scarves
Phil and I went on a double date with his friend and his friend’s wife. I had a great time
On New Year’s Eve my parents had a bon fire and my mom made egg nog
The next day I used the egg nog as coffee creamer!
Phil & I made a list of spring cleaning chores
I didn’t write 2014 on any of my papers at work
The decals I ordered for my laptop came
I wrote my 100th blog post
I bought theroadlessrun.com!!
I had breakfast with one of my favorite friends on Saturday morning
I went shopping and found some amazing sales
I also downloaded my first of the 52 songs I plan to download in 2015. Cool Yule by Louis Armstrong because it is in my favorite movie, Serendipity, and because it reminds me of Christmas.
Good for you for writing down your miles in your journal. I should be more specific in my logging. I know it is a big confidence booster when you look back on it just before a race. Happy blogging and running.
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It sounds like you had a great week. Low mileage not seem great right now but it’s a huge step in the right direction.
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