Monday, February 22, 2010

A Healthy Addiction

I opted to take my rest day for the week today....eventually!
Towards the tail end of last week I began to weigh up the pros and cons of a 6th and 7th consecutive training run today and tomorrow,in fairness to me my legs weren't as sore as I thought they were going to be and I began to think "hey today is doable"
The prospect of rain served as a deterrent today but as I sit here now at 7.30pm there's no sign of said precipitation so when I go home at 4.55pm post chores the thought of getting changed and poppin' off a 6 miler was a very real one.

I've often said it's not in a runners dna to subscribe to the "less is more"theory but the final voice in my head to say"not today" was the fact that both mentally and physically today I really hadn't planned to run so to suddenly get home and say "what the heck" is usually when you get injured because you've had so little time to prepare for that physical effort as opposed to waking up at whatever hour and knowing that in x amount of hours you'd be out there,either doing repeats or mileage.
I'm someone who believes that running is as much physical as it is mental so maybe taking a day off today is not the be all and end all,fingers crossed the rain won't be a factor tomorrow and I can get onto the track at Franklin Field to do a tempo run to prep for Thursday.
Here's hoping the rest day today serves me well for tomorrow,but more importantly Thursday.

4 comments:

dinklesnaps said...

You are indeed speaking the truth.

It sounds like you are heading to NY, not Glen Mills next weekend. The Armory would be a confidence booster. The problem is that the track there spoils you!

kevin f forde said...

"I cannot tell a lie"
Yeah there is a sence of being spoilt at The Armory but given Boston is banked also I figured why not!.
Don't forget there's one final Armory meet b4 Boston on 3.19

dinklesnaps said...

Hmm. This meet could be a last chance. Is this a competitive meet? Have you run it before? Do you know the order of events? Are you planning to run it?

Since I'd have to take off the afternoon that day to make the meet, I'd want my ducks to be in order.

kevin f forde said...

Delve,
w/ the exception of last year when the meet got cancelled I've ran the Frontrunners meet each year since 06.
It's a well organized meet,usually runs to schedule,begins at 7pm.
Running order is:60m,mile,400m,DMR,200m,1,500m race walk,800m,2mile,4x200m,4x400m.
My guess if you're running the 800m be there by 8.30pm at the very latest maybe 8pm to be safe.
I'm running the 2 miles.
Usually gets a good turn out,lot of NYC runners,a better quality of race than anything you'll get at Glen Mills in my opinion.
A week b4 Indoor Nationals it's a great chance to get a confidence boosting run,maybe I'll see you there,afterall "The Armory is where fast times come w/ the terrortory"