Yes! Presence is everything! It’s always a tension for me too. Off season has been sooooo relieving though. Breathing more and having a chance to reflect.
I never had a proper off-season during my first 8 years of running. I am glad my current coach forces me to acknowledge the mental and physical importance of this concept, haha!
Yes to everything you say here — numbers are powerful.
I find it helpful (for me at least) to get creative with the numbers I track, to find ones that are motivational. For example: heart rate PRs. In my middle years of marathoning, I had a 3-mile loop that I ran over and over again, and as I gained fitness, I of course got faster on it. For a while I could count on a personal record run on it nearly weekly. But at some point I maxed out and a new PR on that loop became really hard and infrequent. So, adjust the game... so that wasn't my fastest loop, but it was the fastest I've ever run it with an average heart rate of 145 bpm. Now there's a set of 30 or 40 new PRs to work on (and a boost every time you beat one).
I completely agree with you. As you said it's the modern world...
Thanks for the feedback! yes, an inconvenient truth…
Yes! Presence is everything! It’s always a tension for me too. Off season has been sooooo relieving though. Breathing more and having a chance to reflect.
I never had a proper off-season during my first 8 years of running. I am glad my current coach forces me to acknowledge the mental and physical importance of this concept, haha!
Yes to everything you say here — numbers are powerful.
I find it helpful (for me at least) to get creative with the numbers I track, to find ones that are motivational. For example: heart rate PRs. In my middle years of marathoning, I had a 3-mile loop that I ran over and over again, and as I gained fitness, I of course got faster on it. For a while I could count on a personal record run on it nearly weekly. But at some point I maxed out and a new PR on that loop became really hard and infrequent. So, adjust the game... so that wasn't my fastest loop, but it was the fastest I've ever run it with an average heart rate of 145 bpm. Now there's a set of 30 or 40 new PRs to work on (and a boost every time you beat one).
That's a nice one! I do pay attention to HR, of course, but regarding them as a kind of PR is a great idea.