Sunday, December 02, 2007
Learning the wrong lesson
After I got back from Washington D.C., I planned to take a little time off, then changed my mind and thought I'd jump right back in and work on getting ready for the Indy 500 Mini-marathon next May. Instead I ate poorly and didn't run for two weeks. Then I ran five miles on a Sunday morning and followed it up with Burger King for breakfast. Delicious, sure, but hardly the ambitious training program I claimed I'd be starting in my last blog post.
Then again I did no running and ate poorly for the following week, bringing me to Sunday 11/18 and the Lincolnwood Turkey Trot 10k. Here, after eating a "Super-Size Me" diet and running 5 whole miles in the previous three weeks, I set a new personal best of 47:38 for the 10k distance. The morning of the race I was almost hoping for a very poor time to kick-start me back into working out, and instead I ran really well.
I followed that up with doing the exact same thing (too much food, no running) for the next two weeks. *Now* I'm going to get started working out and putting in those cold, wet, windy, uncomfortable, boring workouts that will pay off months from now. Next week brings an 8k and a chance at bragging rights - I have raced a former co-worker twice this year, splitting the two races. This will be our last chance to race each other so I've got to go hard to avoid being embarrassed. We'll see.
Then again I did no running and ate poorly for the following week, bringing me to Sunday 11/18 and the Lincolnwood Turkey Trot 10k. Here, after eating a "Super-Size Me" diet and running 5 whole miles in the previous three weeks, I set a new personal best of 47:38 for the 10k distance. The morning of the race I was almost hoping for a very poor time to kick-start me back into working out, and instead I ran really well.
I followed that up with doing the exact same thing (too much food, no running) for the next two weeks. *Now* I'm going to get started working out and putting in those cold, wet, windy, uncomfortable, boring workouts that will pay off months from now. Next week brings an 8k and a chance at bragging rights - I have raced a former co-worker twice this year, splitting the two races. This will be our last chance to race each other so I've got to go hard to avoid being embarrassed. We'll see.
