"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
Tonight I ran three miles. I had plans to possibly run four, but I felt like I should only do three. I am having a hard time trying to figure out how many miles I need to run each day because while I am trying to catch back up with my training schedule, I don't want to over-do it, because that is how I got into the situation I am in right now...trying to catch up. I think I increased my mileage a little too quickly. My quote at the top of my blog makes sense for the most part, but I think at some point you can't ignore your body, which I did two Saturdays ago.
My dad gave me a shot Friday night. Boy did it hurt. The next day, my knee was in A LOT of pain. ALL day. Sunday morning, I woke up and it didn't hurt at all. Same as today. I also bought a little band to go above my knee that is supposed to take some of the stress off of my IT band. During my run today it didn't hurt. Only near the end of my run did my knee start to hurt...but this time it is a different part of my knee. great. I ran hard and I still couldn't get under 28 minutes. It is making me crazy. It is really dicouraging. Still had dehydration problems, even though it wasn't as hot...I am still not getting enough water. Looks like I may have to give in to those stupid water bottle waist ugly things. NOOOO!!!!
Anyways my time:
first half=13.41.51
second half=14.27.95
total=28.09.46
avg= 9:23 minute miles. a second slower per mile than Friday! :(
I am starting to wonder if I have reached my highest potential as a runner. I was keeping up with the training schedule, I have gained a TON of muscle, I ran a good 10k and the I DIED running 7 miles. and now every time I run...I feel like I am starting over. I am not running the 15k on Saturday. I really wanted to, but I feel like I need to adjust my training schedule and I think 9 is just a little more than I can do right now, but I will be there to cheer for Trav :) I will probably try to run 7 miles this weekend sometime. We will see how it goes. Wish me luck
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Sorry that it is not going better for you. Running is HARD!!! (And I don't think many people will really say that. I heard, "oh, I love running! I just feel great." WHEN??? I wanted to know.) Cheer extra loud for Travis for me-since I will not be able to cheer him on myself.
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