Thursday – June 14, 2007
Training: 55minutes
Strength: abs
Day Mileage: 8 miles
Week Total: 39.5 miles
Details: Dragging…stressing out…Josi, just say no!!!
Friday – June 15, 2007
Training: day off
Saturday– June 16, 2007
Training: 66 minutes total
Warm up, 5x700 meter hills with a fast-paced jog recovery.
Strength: strides
Day Mileage: 9.5 miles
Week Total: 49 miles
Weather:
Details:
Sunday– June 17, 2007
Training: 65 minutes
Strength: had none…
Day Mileage: was SO SLOW, probably only ran like 8.5 miles because I was DRAGGIN!!!!!!
Week Total: 57.5 miles
Weather: HOT, POLLENY
Details: I called a specialist on Friday to get my allergies checked out. Am waiting to get an appointment! Apparently he's one of the best specialists associated with our national team so he's a busy guy!
Okay…so back to this idea of setting goals and taking at least baby steps to get there. I talk about details a lot, but not necessarily about the details about how many miles one is supposed to run…but the important details besides the running that shouldn't be left out…The ABC drills, the feet exercises, the ab workouts, strength work in general… So these details are hard to cover if you have a million things going on… I like balance, but right now I think I've said yes too many times. I am here, I am there, I am working, I am doing this, I am studying, blah blah blah…So Josi has to learn to just say no!!! I have "workaholicalism" in my blood so it's really hard to fight off. My dad works his butt off every day of the year…On Christmas, we almost have to strap him down so he doesn't go and work!!! The Swiss people are a hard-working peoples and I guess I just got some of that in my blood. Now this workaholicalism can be used to my benefit if I mostly applied it to running and not to everything else I do. So my goal for the summer is to start saying no! I have a lot on my plate right now and I am feeling it taking a toll on my recovery time. I need to learn that it is okay to just sit on my butt and maybe watch some TV (even though I don't have one hahah) or a DVD to let my body recover instead of rushing off to do some other little random errand or favor for someone or dogsitting hahaha or or or…! The thing is that if someone needs a favor from me, I can't say no. Like if this person is like oh can you do this for me, I'm in a bind, I always say yeah no problem!!! But hey, maybe all this good karma will somehow come back to me... I mean I love my life and everyone in my life that supports me so I can't say no to people I care about! But where do I draw the line between, "hey, I need my recovery" and "of course I can help you because you need help…" I don't really know where that line is. All I know right now is that I have WAY too much on my plate and I need to cut back somewhere and it CAN'T be from my running career because I have left out some of the details to do these other things….
So, back to the point, goal for the summer.
DETAILS, DAILY!!!
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