Just Didn't Have it in Me

Today I had planned on doing my long run. The temp was only 62 degrees when I began. Pretty nice! But I just wasn't feeling the energy I knew I needed to make it that far. I kept at it but I was also so not there mentally. I had a lot on my mind today and was just not able to keep my pace up. I stopped to walk a lot more than usual. I knew by mile four that there was no way I was going to make it 11 miles today. So when I got to the high school I decided to stop and watch my 17 year old son at football practice for a while. There was a bunch of women running the track and I thought maybe I should just join them and watch practice at the same time. But I just wasn't motivated enough. I decided to just bag my long run and try and do it on Thursday. I realized I really hadn't eaten many carbs yesterday or drank a lot of water and I wonder if that affected my energy today. It was just not there. I was pretty discouraged with myself. Usually I can push through it and eventually pull it off, but not today. I can't blame the heat because it was only 72 degrees when I got home. I know that there will be good days and bad days, but it's hard to just let it go when you are having a bad day. The frustrating thing is on my last mile, I finally started to get in the groove physically and wondered if I could keep going. But I could tell I still didn't have it mentally. Running is so much mental that I didn't even push it. I just came inside and ate breakfast. Oh well, tomorrow is another day! When I google earthed my distance I was even MORE frustrated because I went almost NINE miles! If I would have just got in another two miles I wouldn't have to do it again on Thursday! Well, maybe I would since I really did walk more than I should and stopped to watch the football practice for about 30 minutes. Let's hope I feel it on Thursday. Ugh!

Total Distance:

8.67 miles