Behind On the Schedule

ShoeMoney and I spent the weekend in Vegas so I am behind on my running.  Last week was hard.  I intended to run the day we flew out-didn’t get up and do it.  I did run Sunday, when we came back.  I hammered out three miles.  Not as tough but cerrtainly not smooth. 

I have a mantra now.  My training book reccomends a motivationla mantra that one is supposed to chat while running.  Here is mine:

“I am a marathoner.  I love to run.  I run until I am done.”

I just repeat that a few hundred times and get through my miles.  It does help.  Although people look at me strange when I say it out loud.  Saying it out loud seems to help.  When I did my first five mile run, I ran past an old guy and told him, “I am running 5 miles today.”  Like he cared but it was the outloud commitment that made me even more commited.  So the mantra is working a bit. 

My training book has a lot of mental techniques for runners.  The authros say that at a certain point your body will give out and then your mind has to help you finish. Since I am pretty much planning on that happening, I thought I better take it up a notch on the mental exercises.