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I didn’t mention it in yesterday’s post, but HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the wonderful mothers out there!
I really miss being close to home and our mothers . Thankfully, this is the last year and next year we will be able to celebrate! My mom is actually traveling overseas right now so I was only able to talk to her briefly.
Sunday’s run was proof that bad runs happen.
The schedule called for a 9 mile run. I was actually really looking forward to it. I already knew the course I planned to do and woke up ready to get out the door! (That doesn’t always happen).
The first couple miles went well. I was able to relax and just enjoy the absolutely beautiful weather.
The around miles 5-6 I started having really intense heartburn. It wasn’t something I could just pass up, I had to stop several times because it kept making me feel like I was going to have to throw up. Not fun.
The course didn’t allow me to cut it short so I just kept trudging through. The last 2 miles were the most brutal. I don’t really know what caused it, but it was pretty awful. I ended up getting in the entire 9 miles.
I guess after a week of pretty great runs I was due for a bad one. That’s okay. It is just another reminder of how blessed I am simply to be able to run.
Since it’s Monday and I always try to pick a focus for the week I wanted to focus on picking yourself back up. I thought about this a lot on my long run yesterday.
Today I will need to pick myself up after a pretty terrible long run and get in a workout.
In fact, over the past year I have had to pick myself up several times. Guess what? That’s how life works. It’s not guaranteed to be easy but if you keep pushing and working through it you will persevere.
Running teaches me so much about life. It may sound crazy but in a lot of ways I related running and my life. If I’m having a horrible run I will tell myself that if I can pick myself back up after my losing my job then I can pick myself back up after a tough run. Even the tough times in life are blessings.
Running is very personal to me. It is therapeutic and I can always count on it to remind me of life’s blessings. Even on the hardest days I am thankful. I remember what it was like to not be able to have those hard days.
So, this week when things get tough remember you can get through anything. We all fight our own battles and it is important to keep pushing through the hard days. It is also important to support one another in this journey. You may not know the battles someone is facing, but remember to lift one another up. We all get by with a little help from our friends! I know I sure do!
What is your focus for the week?
Did you have any tough runs last week?.
Ouch, heart burn sounds rough. I get that sometimes when I run and it’s the worst. I think it happens sometimes when I eat a lot of dry carbs (bread) before I run.
I don’t really know what caused it, but it was tough! That’s okay I will just make sure to try to pay more attention next time 🙂
Running has always been such a great metaphor for life for me! Bad runs happen all the time and I think learning how to deal with these tough moments translates into accepting and dealing with challenges in life. I’m sure the next run will be better!
Completely agree Michele! Couldn’t have said it better myself. The next run did go better 🙂 That’s what I always try to remind myself!
Love this quote by Winston Churchill! So true.
I do too Lauren! 🙂
I completely agree! You have to have bad runs to appreciate the great ones 🙂 It really does just remind you that you are lucky to be able to run in the first place, and to not get so down on yourself 🙂
Have you been able to figure anything out around the heartburn, food or whatever? That makes for an awful time on your runs!
Not quite sure. Wes had the same problem on his run and we think maybe it was the brownies I had made that night. Not sure though… haven’t had it any this week yet! So far so good!
love this message! i’ve recently been thinking a lot about this and i also agree that running is a great metaphor for life. running has taught me to put one foot in front of the other. sometimes it’s a great run and you feel like you can go forever, other times i literally cannot keep going but one day i realized: it doesn’t matter. none of that matters. good or bad, feeling on top of the world or dying in pain– you just keep going. that’s it. there is no other way. it will be done. so do it.
looking at it that way has changed my running. now discomfort is just discomfort. it sucks, but it’s always going to happen so there’s no point trying to avoid it. just keep running.
Great points Eva! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it!
Every now and then I experience one of those tough runs. When things don’t go as planned, my muscles are tense, or I get heartburn like you did. I always think that pain is temporary and it will subside. If I push through, I am going to be so proud of myself. I think of myself as a tough person, when I get through adversity, I confirm my own self image.