I have been feeling off all week. Not a big deal but since the stomach thing on Wednesday, I have been in a bit of a spin. Tired. Slow. Bit achey. And my stomach has been pretty pissed off. TG and I have talked about how sometimes your fitness seems to be spiraling up, sometimes down ... in the micro sense of anyone run or workout. You need to keep your eye on the big picture, ala dynamic meta-stable equilibrium of how you are actually trending.
In any case, given how I felt, a race tomorrow, work obligations, family obligations, I decided to take the day off.
Making such a decision tends to drive me a little nuts. I get a little obsessive about mile totals, minute totals, big picture development, worrying about how disciplined I am, etc. I know this game well enough that it is not that big a deal ... but it is the coming to terms with whether I am deciding it or if I am letting it be decided for me or via a weakness in me that causes mental cycles. I question my resolve.
Various ...
- Congrats to Justin M for PR-ing in the 5K last night.
- Incredible interview with Bobby McGee on Endurance Corner. How timely! He talks about form and mechanics, he talks about the mental side of sport, he talks about HR training ... WOW.
- I don't think this is really a good thing. Can you hear the fabric ripping?
- I stayed up entirely too late last night, getting sucked into a movie I have seen before but I could not remember the end to: The Thing. Given how I have felt as of late, that was just plain stupid.
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