I’ve completed the 16km run on Saturday. The feeling of completing this run is very unique. Not only it’s the longest non-race training run that I’ve run in my entire life, this run also brought up and allowed me to understand some of my own negative life patterns.
I’ve noticed that I began to lookout for excuses for avoiding the run on Friday and Saturday, such as stomach ache, bad weather, leg cramps, lack of sleep, etc. Well, since I wrote in my previous post that I commit to complete the run, I’ll have to do it. Looks like putting myself on the line is an effective strategy.
During the run itself, I began to look for excuses again to short-change myself at around the 11km mark. Since my longest training run than was 11km, why not just stop at 12km, which was already enough to break my personal record. Just when I was about to stop running, I began to reflect on the negative patterns that I was experiencing for the past one or two days, and how such similar patterns had affected myself for the past 30+ years.
At that instance, I decided to raise my personal standard and not succumbing to these negative patterns, and eventually completed the entire 16km.
This run also brought up a logistic issue that I have to look into: The 600ml water bottle that I use is barely enough for the long run. I felt rather thirsty during this 16km run as I was rationing the water and only drunk ~150ml per 4km. Luckily the weather was quite cooling on Saturday. I may have to get ready at least 1000ml of fluid for the 19km run next weekend.
Here is this week’s training goals:
Mon: Badminton
Tue: Yoga
Wed: 6.5km run
Thu: 5km run
Fri: Rest
Sat: 11km run
Sun: Swimming
This week is a “low key” week. Primary focus is to take shorter runs and prepare for the 19km run next weekend. I will also use the Thursday 5km short run to do some speed training.
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