Monday, September 18, 2006
Second Chances
I'm cautiously optimistic about my latest return to running. In the past, my issues of bad luck seem to have come in series' of threes.
Too many recovery days followed by illness followed by injury from taking too much time off.
Poor training then tapering for an unimportant race concluding in a poor (and unimportant) race performance.
Changing my focus from marathon base mileage to an 800m focus to 5k training...all in the same week.
Anything, anything, burning out.
I think it all boils down to an issue of poor scheduling (read: poor self-coaching). Of everyone on Dragons, I probably have the least amount of discipline and, inversely, the most freedom over my training.
This has not proven to be a solid equation in the past. I'd like to think I am finally setting things right. I've actually drawn up a legit week-long schedule that I'm more than one run into following.
Baby steps.
For example, I only have one WOG session included this week. Partly because I am in no rush to get into speed sessions, partially because I am slow, partially because no one even told me WOG was going on until I ran into one Doc Randy Acceta on Friday at the UA race. Mainly, however, it's because there is an event on television I really need to watch on Tuesday evening.
I don't even remember what time WOG is...maybe 6:15, I think.
Anyways, this morning was 25 mins with Train so this evening will probably be around 35. I think I need to run on some grass. My legs are feeling pretty heavy.
Too many recovery days followed by illness followed by injury from taking too much time off.
Poor training then tapering for an unimportant race concluding in a poor (and unimportant) race performance.
Changing my focus from marathon base mileage to an 800m focus to 5k training...all in the same week.
Anything, anything, burning out.
I think it all boils down to an issue of poor scheduling (read: poor self-coaching). Of everyone on Dragons, I probably have the least amount of discipline and, inversely, the most freedom over my training.
This has not proven to be a solid equation in the past. I'd like to think I am finally setting things right. I've actually drawn up a legit week-long schedule that I'm more than one run into following.
Baby steps.
For example, I only have one WOG session included this week. Partly because I am in no rush to get into speed sessions, partially because I am slow, partially because no one even told me WOG was going on until I ran into one Doc Randy Acceta on Friday at the UA race. Mainly, however, it's because there is an event on television I really need to watch on Tuesday evening.
I don't even remember what time WOG is...maybe 6:15, I think.
Anyways, this morning was 25 mins with Train so this evening will probably be around 35. I think I need to run on some grass. My legs are feeling pretty heavy.
