Streak Day 1…Again
Yeah. I *might* have messed up my streak yesterday. I chose not to get up in the morning to run, and what do you know, I didn’t feel like running that evening. I have a variety of excuses for why I didn’t run yesterday, but what it boils down to is that I just didn’t want to, so I didn’t. Do I feel shitty about that in retrospect? Yes. But is there anything I can do about it at this point? Nope. So I march on and I try to attempt this streak thing again.
Thankfully, today I had a reason that I absolutely had to run. One of my very good friends of mine and I decided that we were going to do a virtual 10k race together today. I’m not actually sure what site this 10k came from because it was my boyfriend who decided that the two of us needed to do this together, so he bought it for us. We just decided we were going to run it together. The race was called the Knowledge 10k and was based off the crest for the Ravenclaw Hogwarts house, which my friend Emily and I both identify with.
This is one of the virtual races that you need to submit proof for before they will send you the medal. So now that we have both done it they will send us our medals! (Funny how that works)
I’d be lying if I said the run was easy for me this morning. Honestly, I got up and I just wasn’t feeling it. It took everything I had in me to not think about the distance I was trying to run when I started, because every time it crossed my mind I was completely daunted by the idea of running that distance and my thoughts started spiraling in an I-can’t-do-this pattern. I honestly, did a pretty good job of not thinking about that for the first half of the 10k. Then it got really hard. I started going through my water faster, I started moving slower. I just generally started shutting down. Doing laps is f***ing hard. Much easier to do an out and back or a point-to-point. When you get halfway through those you know that the quickest way to be done is just to finish. Not so with loops. Honestly, I don’t know if I would have made it through all 6 miles today without Dougie running with me and keeping me distracted. Or rather, I don’t know if I would have kept running the 6 miles. I fully intended to treat my run today like an in-person race and if I had to walk to finish, by god I’d walk to finish the mileage. But by the end I was basically toast and was very much in need of my post-race nap (one of my favorite racing traditions).
I’m very thankful that I have a friend like Emily. She supports me on all my running endeavors (including this blog). I met her at a race just about two years ago now and I’m so glad I did. She’s truly an awesome person and I can’t wait until all this is over and I get to do more in-person races with her again. She’s up in New England though, so I usually only get to see her at destination races or runDisney events (or when she just goes to Disney).
Also, I’d like to note that her weather for this run today was MUCH nicer today than mine. I was running in the early in the morning here in Florida and it was still mid-70s and humid, whereas she had nice 50-something degree weather. The scum.
But yeah. Shout out to Emily who’s basically an awesome human being. And here’s hoping I can get up and moving on a new run streak.
Happy Running!