This past weekend it occurred to me I hadn’t consistently run long distances since I last trained for and ran the Oklahoma Memorial Marathon in 2001.
With my children all in school now, I decided I could again carve out the time necessary for running longer distances.
Even though I haven’t been running long distances, I still have ran five miles at a time several times a week since running the 2001 marathon.
Four years ago, I also started working out with a personal trainer because I concluded running in and of itself hadn’t strengthened my entire body.
To my surprise, four years of weight training has made a significant difference in my ability to run long distances.
Saturday I ran 10,000 meters. Sunday I ran 10.0 miles.
Running each distance this past weekend was much easier than when I had first attempted to run either 10k or 10 miles.
There are both psychological and physical barriers which impede levels of performance.
I am pleased to report after having run 10k and 10 miles this past weekend, I have fewer or both.
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” Alfred Adler
Time to go now, I gotta run…
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