Training inspiration

It was a fairly exhausting week of workouts this past week and I was sooooo ready for my TWO rest days IN A ROW. That was awesome. :)

However, this morning I am getting back into it and heading out on a 10-miler. I've been learning a lot about training and it turns out I've sort of been doing it wrong. My workouts should be mostly easy and hard, but not so much in the middle. And I'm pretty much always in the middle. Woops. For example, last weekend my 10-mile pace was 40" to 1'40" faster than what it should have been. That's a lot!! So this morning my goal is to PACE MYSELF, which is one of my biggest struggles as a runner.


But before that, the primary goal is always just to finish. And here are some inspirational quotes and lines from songs that have been pumping me up:

Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better. (Written on board at crossfit.)

I gotta taste it and I gotta have it and I gotta cut all through this traffic just to be at the top of the throne but I know I gotta have it. (Busta Rhymes, "Look at me Now")

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment you own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime. (Eminem, "Lose Yourself")

Of course you're going to feel tired. … By becoming used to the sensation of fatigue and responding with assurance you can train yourself to run through it. (Complete Book of Women's Running)

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. (Isaiah 40:31)

(Athleta)