Getting started with this blogging thing is hard… I mean I worked out today, logged my run – but who cares? These things are routine… the stuff that I do most every day. So I thought I would talk about motivation. Some mornings especially mornings like this one – a dreary, cold Colorado day, I don’t want to get up and run or work out or anything. I have to remind myself of how I feel once I get started and after I am done. A couple of miles into my run, as the pace evens out and the music is blaring… I experience the best feeling… it’s power. Now don’t get me wrong, I am no athlete and my pace is not particularly fast by many standards. But hey – it is my pace, my run and on the good days, it is a great high. Plus there is some sense of victory in overcoming that really, really strong urge to sleep in some mornings. So that is one thing that motivates me.
Another motivator is the calories – I am a work out tool junkie. I love my Polar HR monitor and my Garmin 405. Both tools allow me to (among other things) keep track of the calories burned. Just yesterday I burned over 1200 calories in a run, weights, spin work out… a good burn to me translates to a treat or two guilt free.
Training is the ulimate in motivation tools. Since last fall, I have been in training. I have a Hal Higdon schedule permanently tacked on my ‘fridge. I just ran a full marathon in May and am overlapping recovery and training with a scheduled half-marathon in June (Seattle Rock n’ Roll).
of course some days, nothing is motivation enough and I pull the covers back up over my head and catch extra zzzzzzzzzzzs and that is ok too.
