I hate running in the mornings.
Every morning I get up decide I'm not going to run. Every morning (planned rest days excluded) I somehow make it out the door for just a few miles. Every morning those few miles somehow turn into the workout I'd planned in the first place. And every morning I come back feeling better.
I was reminded of this during my interval session yesterday. I was feeling generally blah when I woke up and didn't feel like running at all. So I told my wife I was going to go for a short 4 miler just to keep myself loose. After the first two miles, I found myself cruising along right next to my interval spot and figured, what the heck, I'll run an interval or two.
And then I not only ended up doing the full interval workout, I did it faster than I've ever done it before. And I felt great when I got home.
A journalist actually contacted me recently for a story he's doing about running the morning. I have no idea if anything I say will appear in the publication, but if it does I'll link to it here.
isn't it amazing the irrational decisions one can make when they aren't really even awake yet? I only need to give myself a few minutes of upright awake time to make they decisions that I actually want to live with for the rest of the day! but it is tough!
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