It's before seven and today the plan is to get out the door early and get the run in with enough time to hit my back before 9:30. We'll see how that goes.
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Post workout update:
So I have been maintaining this weird mental block about lifting over the past week. I'm not sure why but it has been really hard for me to get motivated to go lift. While I definitely need to get over that, today it bore some unexpected fruit. My weeks running goal for Friday is twelve miles. With eight under my belt so far, I got to the gym ready to knock out my last four and get up stairs to work my back into shape. As I rounded the last mental turn with just a quarter mile left I felt like I simply hadn't done enough. So I kept going at pace and made it through mile number five. Though my legs gave some protest for the last mile, my mind, heart, and lungs seemed ready to keep going if I wanted to.
While this extra mile definitely let me write off lifting today, with the tentative promise of hopping on the spin bike after work, it feels like a worthy milestone. Trying to stay focused on the little victories, I am also realizing that I'm going to need to start shaving seconds off my mile, because as much as running for an hour and a half a day appeals, I need to get back to lifting seriously and sadly the gym is not a time warp where hours pass in just minutes (but wouldn't that be great?).
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