There are a lot of sayings out there about how running is mind over matter and how you can’t give up when your mind gives out.\u00a0 You have to power through doubt and uncertainty.\u00a0 You have to do what you think you can’t do.<\/p>\n
But what about when your body is uncertain?\u00a0 I’m not talking about when you’re sore or injured – sometimes there are times when your body absolutely needs rest.\u00a0 But what about those times that you just aren’t feeling it?\u00a0 When you are just completely sluggish and can’t get moving?<\/p>\n
It happens to the best of us.\u00a0 It can happen due to over-training or less-than-ideal nutrition or poor sleep or any number of reasons.\u00a0 Sometimes your body just isn’t into it.<\/p>\n
I’ve been going through a bit of this lately, and I think it’s a combination of the above reasons.\u00a0 My diet needs to be better, I need to sleep more, and I’ve been training quite a bit.\u00a0 So how am I dealing with this?<\/p>\n
Well, one thing I’ve done is slightly trim back my training program.\u00a0 My plan has called for quite a few mid-week ten mile runs.\u00a0 Since I run before work, that means getting up incredibly early.\u00a0 Some days, I know it’s possible.\u00a0 Some days, I know it’s not going to happen.\u00a0 But rather than skip the run, I drop it back to 6 miles or so.\u00a0 That helps quite a bit.\u00a0 I freely admit that I have also missed more workouts than I like.\u00a0 I’ve been getting in the running, but not necessarily the cross-training I need.<\/p>\n
What I’m trying to not do is just plan to skip a workout all together.\u00a0 And if I do, I try to skip the “easiest” workout of the week.\u00a0 So if I have a 4 mile run on Tuesday and an 8 mile run on Thursday and I’m not sure I’m going to make it through them both, maybe I’ll rest on Tuesday and run 8 on Wednesday and then do something different on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Some days though, I just find myself turning off the alarm and going back to sleep unplanned.\u00a0 As long as I don’t do it all of the time, I tell myself it’s okay.\u00a0 Sometimes you just need rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are a lot of sayings out there about how running is mind over matter and how you can’t give up when your mind gives out.\u00a0 You have to power through doubt and uncertainty.\u00a0 You have to do what you think you can’t do. But what about when your body is uncertain?\u00a0 I’m not talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n