Rainy Run

I was intending to capitalize on the pre-rain temperature drop, but fell asleep instead. I need to stock up on things that I can eat at home. Right now, I am making decisions that will affect my training if I don't rectify them soon. Hoping that this job comes in and I can take a deep breath before diving right back into the search.

So, I missed my window and had to do it in the rain. I was actually alright with that factor, considering that it was not terribly windy and the rain wasn't too cold. There were quite a few runners in the park still, most of them belong to a road runner club or tri club, I could tell by their chatter.

I feel like my run today was very successful, not only because of the pace and heart rate during the intervals (5 minutes at race pace) but more so because I have really keyed into slowing down on the "off" portion (1 minute recovery) and am working on my HR recovery speed.

All my life people have told me certain things about their perception of me, but until I see the proof, I push and push and push beyond my limits. It's not that I don't believe them, rather it is that I don't want to prove them wrong. I don't want to sabotage the opportunity to see what they see by doing "good enough". I want to push and strive and be more so that when I am able to see what they see, I can be 100% proud of myself. I want to prove to them that I am truly as good as they see. That I don't give up. That coasting at "good enough" isn't good enough.

Now that I have seen that I am fast and have done the work to get to that point, I want to go deeper. The next few weeks leading up to the Nation's Triathlon will be about keying into the specifics of each workout. Today, it was about training in spite of the rain, running the loop instead of the reservoir, monitoring and maintaining my speed and, most importantly, using the recovery.