List-less

Sometimes I really question my decision-making skills. Like today, I was trying to decide whether to run at lunch. In my head, I made a list of “reasons to run” and “reasons not to run”. It went something like this.

 

Reasons to Run

• I missed my 30K run yesterday because I was doing the hockey mom thing at an out-of-town tournament
• I am just three weeks away from running Around the Bay
• I actually have the time today
• I remembered all my running gear
• A good run would improve my mood and increase my energy level

Reasons NOT to Run

• I forgot my iPod

Easy decision right? Skip the run! You can’t run on a treadmill without an iPod.

In fact, the only run I made this afternoon was to the store for a candy fix. I’m thinking I need some new decision-making techniques. Here’s a motivator -- photos of me taken during the first half of last fall’s marathon and during the last 10K of the same race.

Here’s how I want to look when I’m running Around the Bay:

 
(Me during the first half of the Wineglass) 

Here’s how I don’t want to look (or feel):

 
(Me just a couple of hundred metres from the end. Kill me now.)

 

Yup, it's working. I'm feelng more motivated already.

Comments

[Gord Humphrys aka "Dad"]

"Well, who cares". International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8. "I sure do", you are an inspiration with the constant example you set. It makes me proud to boast of having three daughters who have never considered gender as an obstacle. Hugs, and enjoy the candy fix, but don't even think of sending me the dentist's bill, If I've told you once............... LYA

[Kathy]

Those pictures are great - LOLOLOL! I even made hubby come and look. He philosophized that those pictures really describe life. The first picture when you have the whole race yet to run, you look so happy. The second pic, when the struggle is almost over, as you said...kill me now.

You think it would be the other way around. You think we'd be happier when the struggle is almost over.

Deep thoughts to ponder in case you forget your iPod again : )

[Reluctant Runner]

Those photos are hilarious, aren't they? And humbling.

Kathy: To build on Hrishikesh's philisophical musing, I think you're happy when the struggle is almost over if you've left enough energy to attend to the end. If you haven't, then just getting to the end is brutal. Whoa, I am deep. Totally. Though I'm not entirely sure what I just said.

Dad: Happy Women's Day to you, too, oh father of many women (and husband of one). Lya right back.

[Laura]

Hope the training is going well now! Only a week to go :)

[Nitmos]

Seems like I commented on this post once before but maybe got zapped by not waiting on your word ver. I refuse to comment again. Too bad because it was a real humdinger too.

[Miami eye doctors]

It should be always a reason to run, it's not good only for your health and your body shape but also for your spirit and mood, you feel more positive and think different, you are more optimistic...the iPod is just a pretext without any importance, you can sing a song in your head :))