I recently asked someone how I needed to be prepared for an activity I’d do with them. They gave me some of the expected details, but also said, “just have the beginner’s mind.”
I felt a need to recall that over the last couple of days with my running. I was a bit sore on Monday from my Green outing on Sunday with JV. My legs were not super eager to jump into a workout of repeat 200s with the XC kids, and my mind was taking a beating as I pretty much was smoked on each repeat.
The 200s started at 39 and I got a few of them down to 36, but I probably averaged 37 or 38 over the ten of them.
This morning, I took an invite from JV to meet up with several of Green Mountain’s regulars: Buzz, Homie, Bill, Derek as well as Jeff. By the first turn up Amphitheatre, their headlamps had started to disappear into the pre-dawn darkness and I felt a bit embarrassed they came back down from the summit to check on me when I had not arrived in what was an expected normal time.
I managed the ASG climb in 48:25.
So I am not fit, or at least not fit by what standard I have set previously. I have to keep the “beginner’s mind” and just keep plugging away. The alternative is to not and that certainly won’t make anything better.
