Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Morning walk - 2.38mi, 44:03, 8:06am
Walked with Amy this morning. We got to talk a little - about work, the kids, plans for the house. Amy's ready to go back to work already. My back still feels sore from the tubing trip. I think I need more sleep to recover and build muscle so I don't feel so sore all the time.
No brilliant ideas to report from today's walk. Just glad that I'm keeping the streak alive to eventually instill a new habit of daily activity.
I did have a strange bolt of hubris streak across my brain while in the home stretch of my walk: I thought that it might be a good idea to train for a race like the Army 10-miler. Then I thought it would be more of a challenge - a stretch goal - if I were to train for it as if it were really a race. In the past, when I trained for the ATM I was focused on just surviving the course and finishing. Those are important goals, to be sure, but what if I trained aggressively to hit a personal record time that seems really audacious? I don't know what would happen. It might hurt a lot, but daily activity would not be boring. Motivated by the goal of "leaving it all on the field" and achieving a personal best time that seems out of reach could feel really good.
No brilliant ideas to report from today's walk. Just glad that I'm keeping the streak alive to eventually instill a new habit of daily activity.
I did have a strange bolt of hubris streak across my brain while in the home stretch of my walk: I thought that it might be a good idea to train for a race like the Army 10-miler. Then I thought it would be more of a challenge - a stretch goal - if I were to train for it as if it were really a race. In the past, when I trained for the ATM I was focused on just surviving the course and finishing. Those are important goals, to be sure, but what if I trained aggressively to hit a personal record time that seems really audacious? I don't know what would happen. It might hurt a lot, but daily activity would not be boring. Motivated by the goal of "leaving it all on the field" and achieving a personal best time that seems out of reach could feel really good.
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