First workout back! Gotta love ripping off the bandaid that felt like it was superglued to my skin;)
The workout called for 2 miles w/u, 4 x 800m @ 6:00 pace, 400m @ 5:50 pace, 200m fast with 400m floats at around a 7:15 pace in between each interval, and a 4-minute recovery between each set. I did the workout minus the floats and waited for Emilee to come back around, and joined behind her in her next interval. I needed standing recoveries and was so impressed by her continuing to float-pace (aka not interval-fast but not easy) after each fast rep. I’m happy to get back into things again!
All of the layers that I shed yesterday:
We realized the track we love to use has indoor restrooms and a water fountain, open year-round. The things that bring runners joy:
The workout yesterday was quite uncomfortable for me… it felt like I was doing it all for the first time. Between marathon recovery + gum graft recovery, it had been quite some time since I had asked this kind of running discomfort from myself but I kept on thinking about some quotes from the Comfort Crisis (I can’t recommend this book enough… this is my 3rd time listening to it) and have to share a few quotes (I did my best to type them out as I was listening:) that I found incredibly motivating to keep doing what we are all doing:
“Doing hard things is part of our DNA. It’s like Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.” But we’ve now become a victim of the success of our species; there’s been a rejection of physically hard things these days, mostly because everything has become so easy that any difficulty is a bridge too far. Ask any special forces guy, doing physically hard things is an enormous life hack. Do hard things, and the rest of life gets easier, and you will appreciate it all more. Not doing physically hard things gets us all out of whack. The data is overwhelming in terms of our need to sweat, to be outside, to be part of a community. I’m not saying anything new here, I’m just reminding us of how we are hardwired.”
“Diseases fly from the presence of a person habituated to regular physical exercise. The miracle cure… Physical Activity. People who are physically active have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and depression. The higher a person’s cardio fitness, according to stacks of medical literature, the further that person is from nearly all of the popular ways humans now die. Heart Disease kills more than 25% of us; that’s one person in the United States dying every 37 seconds. Expanding fitness just a bit, the equivalent of a person improving their max running speed from 5 mph to 6 mph, reduces the risk of heart disease by nearly 30% according to the American Heart Association. Next is cancer, it kills 22.8% of us, the most fit people face a 45% lower chance of dying from the disease. Then we have accidents, they take 6.8% of us. Being in shape drops their chances of dying from accidents by 80%…” He goes on and on about the number of diseases that physical activity lowers our risk for, and he includes the sources for all of these stats as well.
“The more a person marinates in exercise-induced discomfort, the more death-resistant they will be.”
So, long story short. Keep doing the hard things.
This topic reminds me… Is anyone running CIM this weekend? I’m so excited to track friends and cheer everyone on. If you are running it, here is my recap (and it includes where Andrew spectated, too). Sending you all of the good luck, perfect weather, and tailwinds.
A day we get to spend with my mom is always a good day.
She is still hitting the gym every day, doing her aqua jogging in the lazy river (against the current)!
It was a quick teriyaki chicken bowl for dinner kind of a night. My kids love this recipe.
Followed by some of this…
And finished up with my niece’s BYU Orchestra Concert, she did amazing.
Beck was so relaxed.
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Anyone running CIM this weekend?
Any running joys you have had lately like our discovery of the always open indoor water and restroom?
What was the last nonfiction that you read?
Do the waterfountains in your area stay on throughout the winter?
-The only outdoor one that stays on in the winter is in the canyon. I miss the other 12 fountains we stop by frequently during the summer very much.
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