Today has been an eventful day. Very important things have happened. Let me tell you about them...
Teton Running Company called me this morning and I was offered a part-time position. I promptly accepted it. Who knows all the reasons, I'm sure there are several, but I think part of it had to do with the fact that I had detached myself from the outcome. I did a post on it yesterday entitled Detachment and you're welcome to read it. Anyways, that was awesome.
Next: I did two workouts. I was not happy about the second one. I was feeling a little discouraged, tired. But I went anyways and it ended up being a good run.
Next: My plan today was to do my next 400 meter time trial. I went to the library with my mom and when I got home the plan was to take a little nap, take my brother to the high school to set up for the Welcome Back dance, and then I would do my time trial at the track. Well I was feeling really tired first of all. Second, I didn't have any spikes because they were in my wife's lost piece of luggage that was then returned to my wife in Utah. Third, when I went to take a nap I couldn't sleep. I had tons of thoughts going through my mind.
To make my long thoughts short I realized that I need to train smarter, not harder. I decided that I need to take some time to figure things out, specifically what my next steps are with races, my goals with training etc. So I decided to train as my blog title says: Smarter not Harder, which I think may be the title of a book. Anyways, my plan therefore is to ease off and train harder as I feel better. I plan to read the book that Ed Eyestone recommended, Daniels' Running Formula, and take a smarter approach to my training so I don't get injured or sick. You know? Over.
Teton Running Company called me this morning and I was offered a part-time position. I promptly accepted it. Who knows all the reasons, I'm sure there are several, but I think part of it had to do with the fact that I had detached myself from the outcome. I did a post on it yesterday entitled Detachment and you're welcome to read it. Anyways, that was awesome.
Next: I did two workouts. I was not happy about the second one. I was feeling a little discouraged, tired. But I went anyways and it ended up being a good run.
Next: My plan today was to do my next 400 meter time trial. I went to the library with my mom and when I got home the plan was to take a little nap, take my brother to the high school to set up for the Welcome Back dance, and then I would do my time trial at the track. Well I was feeling really tired first of all. Second, I didn't have any spikes because they were in my wife's lost piece of luggage that was then returned to my wife in Utah. Third, when I went to take a nap I couldn't sleep. I had tons of thoughts going through my mind.
To make my long thoughts short I realized that I need to train smarter, not harder. I decided that I need to take some time to figure things out, specifically what my next steps are with races, my goals with training etc. So I decided to train as my blog title says: Smarter not Harder, which I think may be the title of a book. Anyways, my plan therefore is to ease off and train harder as I feel better. I plan to read the book that Ed Eyestone recommended, Daniels' Running Formula, and take a smarter approach to my training so I don't get injured or sick. You know? Over.
aw. no pics or videos. :(
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