Ever wonder the purpose of a 10km Tempo run? It's designed to mentally break you I think. Today I faced mine on the treadmill again...and i nailed it. It felt good for the first time in a really long time to not be feeling like I can't do this. I finished that run with energy to spare...until I actually got upstairs. Then I crashed. Hard.
That's okay. I ran on dead legs with a numb left arm. I was planning on heading out to run club tonight to run with some of the newbie runners there but the smell of my husbands dinner is making me droooool. Damn it smells amazing and I want some. So i think I'll abandon the -40 with extreme windchill facing me out there and belly up to the slow cook steak and baked potatos with green beans awaiting me.
I've earned every bite today.
Tomorrow I face hills on the treadmill...because there's not enough $$ in the world to make me run that damn overpass at night again. Plus it's getting close to the event date and at this point what I need is physical strengthening not mental.
Running 9 hills on dead legs is going to be...umm...well...we'll see.
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