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Exhaustion, pure utter exhaustion from the emotional weight of the last couple of months and a hectic hockey mom schedule, has become the scapegoat for missing my post Zumba run these past 3 weeks. During Zumba sessions, I dial back my mileage to mitigate the abuse to my body, but these runs are still important for my training. My goal is to eventually break 27 minutes in a 5k and to complete a 10K in under 60 minutes. Without these runs, my pace falls off and my endurance wanes.
This weekend Jake and I are running our first 5K of 2017, the Eric Patrie 5K in Delray. Both of us are looking for a new PR in this race, which will be tough given the increase in temperatures since our last 5K in December. In order to even be close to my PR (28:32), I knew I’d have to log some miles tonight. So despite being tired and hungry, I ran.
My treadmill has become an important part of my bedroom furniture serving as a fully functional clothes and handbag hanger. In the Florida spring and summers when the weather is stormy, it serves a different purpose. It actually functions as a piece of exercise equipment. While I prefer to run outdoors, I’m glad to have the option of running indoors when the weather doesn’t cooperate.
In spite of sheer exhaustion, I got in a nice 20 minute run. The run felt good and as usual I felt even better afterwards. It would have been easy to skip the run given I already taught Zumba tonight, but in order to achieve my goals I had to run. The point is sometimes the only obstacle between us and our goals is us. Paolo Coelho said it best, “people are capable, at any time of their lives of doing what they dream of.” Sometimes we just have to get out of our own way.
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