Wednesday, May 27, 2009

AM Runner Envy


Morning Routine:

- Wake up after Hubs
- Threaten to call in sick to work
- Shuffle into bathroom to take shower, get dressed
- Gracie Lou (aka The Destroyer) wakes up, comes into our room
- Hubs leaves for work
- Gracie steals socks from clean laundry, curls up in ball on bed to nap
- Breakfast
- Brush teeth; dog senses a threat to her comfort
- Chase Gracie around the bed as she tries to avoid going to her crate
- Dog escapes; curls up in ball on couch to nap
- Catch dog, who goes dead-weight as I try to carry her
- Crate Dog
- Go to work

"Go away, BB...I iz jus fine rite herr."


I read about people getting 4-5 miles runs in before they go to work and I really am jealous of those AM runners.

Not that my routine is especially tense or busy (it's not at all), I just can't make myself workout in the morning.

Ugh...but I really should. It's getting too hot to run in the afternoon.

4 miles yesterday at the park seriously felt like 20. I was tired the entire time.

And I would give my right leg to make my left leg stop hurting. Think about THAT for a while.

Is this training burn-out normal?

When am I supposed to get excited again?

7 comments:

  1. its SO normal to get burnt out. take some days off...or run with a friend...or run somewhere new...or watch a movie about running (spirit of the marathon is great)....all of those things get me pumped to run if im feeling out of it.

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  2. Great advice-- thank you! It's good to hear that the burnout is normal.

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  3. i have always wanted to be a morning runner too! i just feel like i'm not awake enuogh yet, and don't think i can wake up much earlier than i do now... it would be amazing though to get my run out of the way and my day started on the right foot. maybe we CAN be mornign runners :)

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  4. I love working out in the morning but its very difficult some days. I usually do good for a week, then not so good for the next 3. I ran yesterday mid-day and the humidity was overwhelming. At 3 miles I felt as if I was going to get sick and thats never happened to me on a run before. That's just more incentive to get my run "did" in the morning.

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  5. haha it kills me too as I drive to class with my full belly of oatmeal and seeing runners go by - I think to myself "Good for you" simultaneously as " I am totally running later so don't think you are all that" and " I would probably run faster than you anyway" and then back to " oh they have such motivation to run first thing"

    my leg hurts too- WAAAAH WAAAH! I will give you my good leg so that you may have two working legs.

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  6. I really wish I could run in the mornings. It makes such a huge difference for me. But I'm out the door for work by 5:30 a.m. when it's still dark, so it's just not possible. Running after I've been on my feet all day at work in the Houston summer heat is making things so hard!

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  7. I have done the morning workout thing a few times. I always feel great the rest of the day, it's just that dragging my sorry butt out of bed early enough to do it that is hard.

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