Motivation: Lacking

I’ve been kind of feeling slumpish the past couple of weeks, running wise.

Life is busy and I’m getting to the point of the highest intensity in my training (one more month until tapering begins!) and ugh. What I wouldn’t do for a bike ride, you know?

(Except it’s still too cold for bike riding. And I haven’t gotten it out of the storage room yet.)

Anyway, it felt like every run I was dragging my heels to get going. My mom once told me that lacing up your shoes was the hardest step to take, and while that’s often very true, it wasn’t very encouraging to convince myself to lace up my sneakers only to drag my heavy tired legs along for 8k.

This happened to me last time I was training for a marathon, too. I got to the point where my legs were never not tired. I’m not sure that there’s really any way around it, I mean, I do strength training twice a week (once with a personal trainer) and run four times a week. I think it’s just some weeks your legs are heavy and tired and some weeks they’re not.

As far as my sore leg goes, I went out and bought myself one of those very strange foam rollers and now, every evening I do stuff like this.

I’ve actually been spending about 20 minutes stretching and rolling each evening. It’s oddly relaxing to contort your body over a piece of foam.

As far as muscles go, I’m pretty sure my leg is fine. I’ve laid off speed training for the past two weeks, but assuming my (second attempt at a) 32k tomorrow goes well, I’ll get back to it next week.

I need a motivational boost, guys. Tell me what you’ve been doing and what your goals are. Have you been enjoying spring weather or is it still cold? How are you spicing up your runs? Anything here, guys, anything will work.