Day 3: Interval Running at 6:30AM with the Triathlon Team
Kudos to all Runners - It's Hard Work!
Running is the hardest of all the training and I've been too intimidated to run laps with the team even though they've insisted every one runs at their own pace. I am not a runner and I'm not sure why I say that. Do I think it's too hard, too much potential injury, boring, or am I just plain not interested?
People in my WW meetings, who have lost the most amount of weight, did it with running or on the treadmill. That's enough to motivate me and hence the triathlon training sign up. If a little is good then a lot should be better. Right? That's probably the kind of thinking that got me in trouble in the first place.
Last night, the schedule offered a bike clinic, which I passed on, to get a good night sleep for this morning's run. The coach, who seemed surprised to see me, hung back with me, and gave me valuable pointers. He pushed me to run more and faster. It didn't take long before I started feeling a bit elated, was it a possible runner's high, and it clicked that as a kid I loved running and ran fast.
Where along the way did I forget how much fun it was to run as fast as I could? When I was a kid, I enjoyed relay races, team spirit, and healthy competitive sprints.
I didn't mind being the slowest runner this morning because I was keeping up. We did walking around the corners and then fast sprints down the length of the track. I wasn't the first one to slow down and just start walking.
This I know. I won't always be the slowest. I haven't forgotten how to be competitive and that will help me to improve.