So this should be day 6 of my 31 day | 200 mile challenge. Instead, I just need to say that I was wrong. So when my coach told me this was a terrible idea, she was mainly concerned that I would get hurt doing this crazy challenge. Ramping up from the amount of running I had been doing to running this much and every day would just be too much on my ecoskeleton. And it turns out she is pretty dang smart. I promised her if anything started to feel weird, I would stop.
I woke up Monday and I really felt the 12 miles from Sunday. I did yoga and a tether swim; thought that would shake everything lose and I’d be OK. Went out to run about 5 pm and was starting to feel some weird things in my hip and legs. So I did what I very rarely ever do, I stopped my watch and walked home. Sent my coach a text saying “you were right.”
Now, I am super sad about this. I know it was crazy, but I blame the ‘Rona. Doing this and then getting hurt and not being able to do anything, well that would just make me absolutely insane, so as much as it pains me, I’m pulling the plug on this one.
It’s the way I was built – I will need to come up with something else crazy to do to entertain my endlessly ever moving self. But this week I think I’m just going to do a hard reset and try to come to terms with the fact that I am indeed training for nothing except myself right now. And admit that this challenge wasn’t very smart and I was wrong.
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