June 25, 2011 Saturday 56 days to go 8 weeks today is THE day
Can't sleep. Stressing about the marathon. One good thing - its still 8 weeks away. One bad thing - actually alot of bad things, lack consistency in workouts and eating is still out of control. Sometimes I think I'm like a kid with selective hearing. I hear "go early for my run" but its like I don't really hear it or I would do it. Same with "eat properly". Maybe I am beating myself up because I missed another workout again yesterday AND I let my I eating get completely out of control again with lots of chocolate, scones and chips.
It seems I go along fine and then when something gets me out of routine - BAM - it all goes out the window.
Had a little holiday for our anniversary - 37 years. It was great! We stayed overnight in a beautiful suite overlooking the ocean, ate amazing food in the restaurant and totally enjoyed a bit of time to ourselves. I did my tempo workout the morning we left - 40 minutes trail running and it felt good. Next morning ate Eggs Benedict instead of going for a run. In no time at all it was back to work and regular life.Oh, well, will trade that day for off day.
Yesterday, then was the day to do my kilometer repeats at 6 min/K. Late night the night before due to an emergency so question is: sleep in? or get up anyway with less hours of sleep and do run? I slept in and of course the day took over and the window closed until the evening when I was too tired to run.
There will always be an excuse for not running and I will always find an excuse for eating WAY too much chocolate. The fact is that I have 8 weeks left to make a go of this training and do it properly. If I don't take it seriously NOW there just won't be enough time to get in the workouts and weight loss required to run a marathon. As I say this to myself I am already bargaining with myself how I can sleep in and get the run in some time during the day today. A compromise. When Lorne gets up for his meeting I will do my run first before doing anything else. Now lets see if I can get back to sleep so I am not a zombie doing my run.
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