I love afternoon meetings. Afterwards I always feel like I could do more work – and with only half an hour left I have just enough to keep me busy until I go home. My head is a little sore and so is my nose, but I think we’ll make it out for that run tonight and manage to not die. It has cooled down considerably outside so I won’t need to put on any sunscreen. Lovely :)
I love the new running shorts I got – they feel really comfortable and I needed them since it was becoming hotter. I ran with long ones, but once it gets hot, those are really uncomfortable, so its better to run in short ones. We’re only going to go for a 30 minute run tonight – in 2 weeks we start doing some speedwork on Tuesdays just to improve our general running. I’m really looking forward to it, since it’ll end up making us do better in races, and therefor I’ll feel better after races, knowing that I did what I needed to in order to finish in a good time.
That’s something that’ll stick with me for the rest of my life I guess – having to run against time. I don’t have to run faster than anyone else, just as long as I run faster than I’ve ever run before. It something that some of my earliest coaches has programmed into me in a way, considering that I never had to win (although I won my fair amount of races), but I had to run a good time. A PR would definitely brighten my day at that stage. Now I just want to get to a point where I’ll be happy with the pace I’m running, whenever I’m running.
I remember a time when I was aiming towards a certain time – over the distance of 1000m. The time I was aiming to run was 11 seconds faster than I’ve run it before, but my coach was sure I could run it. Sadly, till this day I haven’t run it in a race. I have done it twice during training though. There’s just something about running that sort of time during a race though.
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