I like this quote from Paul Every. It is like how a child lives there life. It is kind of how I feel at the moment. I am really enjoying my running!
Forget about your times and distances and your weekly mileage and your training program. Just run. Find some new trails. Do lots of races. Don't analyse results. Disregard your times. They don't matter. Neither do places. Race without a watch. Just race. Go hard and enjoy. Do events that are new or different. Orienteering. Fatass. Triathlon. Whatever. Hang out with other runners. Run with other runners. Especially someone who is new to sport and still has that puppy dog enthusiasm. Go for a run when you don't usually. At noon, at midnight or before dawn. When it is pouring down with rain one night, head out for a run without your shirt and splash through lots of puddles. Make sure you find some mud. You have a mission to return from a run covered in mud this month. Find a new hill. Run up and down it until you've had enough, then find another one. Arrive home knackered......
Do all this and when March rolls around, start thinking about Gold Coast again. You'll have a base, some speed and, if your mojo has returned, plenty of enthusiasm to get stuck into your marathon training program. And more than enough time to prepare.
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Nice - keep enjoying your running mate, maybe we can still pull you back from the dark side ;). Be interested to see if you go pursuing some mud on Sunday @ striders, I know where to find a great patch of it if you are keen
Paul's post was one of the best things I think I've ever read on CR. Man I miss mud :-(
Good quote! I missed it on CR.
It's raining now... I should find some puddles - or wait until midnight.
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