Friday– September 30, 2005
Training: 60 min jog am 40 mins pm 20 mins exercises
Where: Wimmis
Quotes: "Sooo…how did it feel today?" Fritz
Actually, I felt decent today. But I usually only feel my workouts 2 days after so this is pretty normal for me…tomorrow I will be sore as hell I am sure of it. Plus draggin' all my crap up 4 flights of stairs (8 sets of steps) (of course with the help of some cousins and an uncle), I am sure I will feel FANTASTIC!
HEAD
Oh man, sometimes your head can get the best of you! Can't it? In a workout, the SECOND you think negatively, you slow yourself down. In my head, I yell at myself a lot. When I start noticing that I am getting negative, I tell myself, "Don't freaking wuss out Josi…stick with it…Don't freaking wuss out." Of course in my head, it sounds a lot more explicit…but we will leave that in my head in my workouts. But hey, I don't care what you think about it because it works for me and it makes me run faster every time. I was doing this one workout where I had to negative split on every repeat (It was a 600-500-400 times 3 on HILLS). And in the second set, on the 600 I totally mentally wussed out and ran so flippin' slow. It pissed me off because I let myself get the best of me! And then in my head I was thought, "No! No! No! No! No! No! This workout is NOT gonna' go down like this. I am not a bleeping mental wuss……" And then lo and behold, I negative split the last set. I know my thoughts go up and down when I am running so I know it happens to other people as well. When I used to go watch my teammates work out, I could see the point in when they would wuss out and give up…or I could also see when someone was hurting like HELL, but they would still muscle through it with the ugliest strained face, but they would finish the workout. There is a huge difference between feeling like crap, but still giving your best and really PUSHING AND HURTING through a workout vs. just plain old feeling like crap and giving up. Everyone has bad workouts, but it is a matter of how you deal with it mentally. Even if you don't feel good in a workout, but tough it out, I think that does huge things for 'you' as a runner in a race.
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