Staleness
Woke up easily for my run but felt stale and uninspired. Unusual. I didn’t look forward to running as I normally do. I worked through whether I have been running too much. not really. The alternative of going to the gym and cycling a bit, or doing the circuit didn’t inspire me either.
When I thought of changing my route I got excited. When I started out my legs fizzed and jogged happily. That reminded me of The Lore of Running – in there somewhere it talked about changing routes to relieve repetition of running.
Out there under the stars of yet another gorgeous Cape Town morning, I wanted to run 8, 15 k, maybe more. But I remembered more of the Lore of Running before I did too much: let recovery runs be recovery runs. I learned long ago that a recovery run should be just that – run until you feel like running then stop and go home. Let all that fizz and bounce, bubble through legs, body, mind.
That’s what this taper is about anyway. It’s so easy to get caught up in chasing distance that its hard to remember the taper is about less distance and more happiness in the legs.
Great. Bring on tomorrow.