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November 11, 2005
Week Two!
I decided a couple days ago to get a calendar out and calculate when I needed to start my Boston training schedule... turned out that I was already in week two -- whoops! But week two is just 50 miles of easy running and I was on pace to do that this week anyway so it worked out well.
I did another easy 8 yesterday starting and finishing at school. I find that once I get home it's really difficult to motivate myself to get out the door again. Coming home at the end of the day to me means relaxing and unwinding inactively -- getting a snack and curling up on my couch with a book or flipping on the tv. I think this was wired into me when I was growing up: I went from school directly to practice for whatever sport I happened to be into at the time and when I finally got home I was done for the day. So, rather than risk procrastinating until 11 o'clock then going on the treadmill or, worse, bagging the run altogether I've found it's better to just go from school. This is the functional equivalent of running home from work, which I used to do to get my doubles in when I was working. Erg. In not too many weeks I'm going to have to motivate myself to get up early again so I can double to get the miles in.
But no doubles this week. In fact, I have just 6 miles to do today and I've got my 50. I'm gonna enjoy the low mileage while I can.
Posted by alweiss at November 11, 2005 09:05 AM