Thursday, April 11, 2019,
I ran a competitive 10K (6.2 miles) this past Saturday.
Post-run, I talked myself into McDonalds breakfast (which was amazing), pizza for lunch, and then, behold, pizza for dinner. No regrets. I run so I can commit food crimes.
Throughout this week, my alarm has gone off at 4:30AM each morning, and I've said "nope" and turned my alarm off to wake later, in between 6:15AM-6:30AM.
I'm expecting this morning's practice to be fine, but, even as I sit, I can feel soreness in my body. Time to sweat it out.
Thursday, April 11, 2019 (Part II)
I'm writing this post-practice update the next day.
I had a wonderful practice yesterday but, as it goes sometimes, my head was running around and thinking all of its own thoughts. The mat helps me bring everything down to Earth again and allows me the practice and exercise opportunities to tell myself, "no, brain; we're not going to think about that hilarious Far Side comic right now, we're going to slow ourselves down, and think of nothing. You're powerful, and I intend to harness that power by learning to control you better.".
Naturally, that conversation doesn't literally happen but, when I feel my mind flitting all over the place, I know the energy is good, but it needs to be corralled or it's useless to me and the world.
Physically, I felt a little rickety yesterday as I moved. I'm generally very aware of how I'm feeling, and never push myself into anything that is dangerous or overly painful.
Even though I'm writing this the morning after, I'm still feeling the positive effects from yesterday's practice.
Namaste
I ran a competitive 10K (6.2 miles) this past Saturday.
Post-run, I talked myself into McDonalds breakfast (which was amazing), pizza for lunch, and then, behold, pizza for dinner. No regrets. I run so I can commit food crimes.
Throughout this week, my alarm has gone off at 4:30AM each morning, and I've said "nope" and turned my alarm off to wake later, in between 6:15AM-6:30AM.
I'm expecting this morning's practice to be fine, but, even as I sit, I can feel soreness in my body. Time to sweat it out.
Thursday, April 11, 2019 (Part II)
I'm writing this post-practice update the next day.
I had a wonderful practice yesterday but, as it goes sometimes, my head was running around and thinking all of its own thoughts. The mat helps me bring everything down to Earth again and allows me the practice and exercise opportunities to tell myself, "no, brain; we're not going to think about that hilarious Far Side comic right now, we're going to slow ourselves down, and think of nothing. You're powerful, and I intend to harness that power by learning to control you better.".
Naturally, that conversation doesn't literally happen but, when I feel my mind flitting all over the place, I know the energy is good, but it needs to be corralled or it's useless to me and the world.
Physically, I felt a little rickety yesterday as I moved. I'm generally very aware of how I'm feeling, and never push myself into anything that is dangerous or overly painful.
Even though I'm writing this the morning after, I'm still feeling the positive effects from yesterday's practice.
Namaste
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