Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Mental Game

I think long distance running is all mental. Yeah, you need to be fit, but we can push our bodies so much more than what we do. I think it's more about breaking through the negative thoughts and just getting out there and doing it.

Last night, for instance, I had NINE beers, yes nine. Ridiculous, especially when I know I had to run 9 miles this morning! But they were going down too easily but it was fun at the time. But when I woke up this morning with that all too familiar head pain and dry mouth I was like "why did I do that"? I could have easily just went back to bed for another 3 hours. DH gave me the hairy eyeball when I asked him if we had sex last night...LMAO! Then he said, "thanks a lot, I was a stud too"!

But I got up and ran my 9 miles. It was actually a pretty good run, surprisingly!

Distance: 9 miles
Duration: 1:32
Calories Burned: 987

4 comments:

Delane said...

WTG..

I think physical and mental rotate, you need to conditioned enough to do the miles, but mentally you can you get your self though some of them even if you don't have the physcial condition.

I HATE RUNNING HUNGOVER!

Its not during the run that I feel like crud, its post run..ugh.

Nena said...

A beer a mile sounds perfectly reasonable to me. :-)

Robin said...

Blech on hangover running. But I'm LMAO that you had to ask Bobby if you guys had sex last night! BWAH!

I really need to start upping my mileage. Eh.

Tammy said...

LOL!! at "Did we have sex last night?"

For me, running is 99% mental.