Hello all!

What a great bounce back week! The week before, I had some set backs. Felt like my times were not what they should have been, and my overall performance was just not satisfactory. However, this week was a complete 180 degree turn around. It started slow with my morning run on Tuesday. I ran a slow 5 miles. Not what I wanted to do, but it happend. Then on Wednesday I ran 3.1 at a personal record. Thursday I ran my hill work out faster than I did the week before by more than a minute. I was stoked. But, the real difference maker was my 9 mile run on Sunday. The week before, I also ran 9 miles. I ran it at 1:26. I was happy with the time, but not thrilled. However, this week I ran the same distance at 1:22. A four minute improvement!

The difference was my attitude. I wasn't sure why I couldn't run the distances in the times that I wanted. I was frustrated. Then around 5 miles I decided to really push myself. I knew I had plenty of gas in the tank to finish the run, so I took off. I ran the last four miles in 34 minutes. which for that distance alone is a personal record. After I finished I felt great, could have easily finished another three miles, if not at that pace, then a tad slower. I was extremely happy, becasue this puts me under my goal of running a sub 2 hour half marathon. Today, I ran 5 miles faster than the week before. All in all it's been a fantasitic week.

I think the difference in my running is attributed to my attidude. It didn't occur to me that the reason I wasn't performing as well as I would like, was due to not pushing myself. Sometimes I think we get caught up in not pushing ourselves to hard, in order to prevent injury. However, sometimes you need to suck it up and run harder. I truly believe it is a major element to improving.

Till next week!

Train hard, Train smart, Stay healthy.

Sincerely,

Vincent