Hi Friends,
I decided/had to take yesterday off from blogging to defend my own sanity.
Like I have mentioned 185729301 times before, Christmas is not my favorite time of the year. I’m a pretty positive person throughout the majority of the year, but I have trouble just feeling happy at Christmas time. I’ve written a bit about my remedies for the Christmas blues; for me it helps to stay active, follow my normal routine as much as possible, and take some alone time to recharge. And I tried to put those remedies in place as best I could.
But ALAS! Mother nature got in the way! My Saturday long run was cancelled due to an ice storm, so I ended up doing my 10-miler on Sunday, which meant I needed to keep it low impact on Monday/Christmas day. So I signed up for an 8 am workout class on Christmas morning, which I attended, but it literally started blizzarding while I was in class and I had to drive through white-out conditions to get back home after class. The snow threw off my whole Christmas-calming plan, so admittedly I just wasn’t my best self.
I deal with bad days the same way I deal with bad runs; I try not to give them too much power over me. For, me, it’s important that I don’t let one rough day or one failed long run damage how I see myself as a whole. Like many, many women, I sometimes beat myself up over little failures and disappointments. If I don’t give 110% or endless positivity or constant, relentless effort, I can get really down on myself. This is a line of thinking that has held me back for a long, long time, and working to correct it had been the biggest project of my adult life. And I feel like I need to be open about this because um, no one else is. So I hope for someone else out there reading this is helpful or relatable or something like that!
Leading into the holiday, though, I did follow through with my routines all week, and managed to log a nice number of miles.
- Monday: 3 mile run + Leg Lift
- Tuesday: 30 minutes swimming
- Wednesday: 4 mile run
- Thursday: 3 mile Run
- Friday: 30 minutes swimming
- Saturday: Spin class
- Sunday: 10.5 mile run
- Monday: Barre Class
- Total Weekly Milage: 20.5
Super exciting to be back in the double digits for my long runs, and back in the 20’s for my weekly milage. I am hoping to stick at about 20 miles this week, then start building a little more in January.
I also wanted to share my very exciting running-related christmas gifts with you! My older brothers did a nice job gifting me some running accessories that I am super excited to put to good use this training cycle!
Firstly, this super cool massage roller and foot massaging ball! I already tried them out and they feel SO GOOD.
Then there’s these natural-ish energy gels in really yummy flavors. My brother bought me a whole box, and they look awesome, so i am hoping that they work for me!!
Also a new deluxe heating pad. I am a heating pad addict, just FYI.
And last but not least…another bottle of calcium+vitamin supplements so I can keep fighting the good fight against further bone injuries.
I hope everyone out there had a very Merry Christmas! I’ll be posting a little let then normal this week, as i believe that vacation should be VACATION!!
Now You Tell Me…
- Favorite gift this year?
- Anyone struggling to train with this crazy winter weather?!?
- Any other perfectionists out there? Tips? Strategies?
That sucks you had to drive home from your barre class in white out conditions. Glad you got home safe though! Those massage balls/rollers look amazing.
I love your mentality about bad days/bad runs! It’s so easy for me to let a bad run completely ruin my day.
I need to look into those massage rollers! Great idea.