Today I was doing an early-before-breakfast-run to find myself really out of sync. My body felt heavy, unstretched with alot of tension in the muscles and couldn't really relax during the run. I tried powerwalking with a little running, light stretching still nothing helped. So I did something highly unorthodox (where most would've kept going bearing with the pain and tension) I did the exact opposite.
I stopped, I aborted the whole mission! After half an hour I went back home and carried on with my daily routines. I felt a bit dissapointed, my thoughts went: perhaps I should've pushed it a bit more but then thought heck I've got tomorrow and the day after. After a bit of dwelling I left this thought pattern behind me!!
Later that day, noonish at 7PM I felt compelled, my body felt warm, relaxed and I was pumped up for a run so I gave it a shot. I ran 8km with ease like a bird catching the right wind under her wings feeling this is one of my most relaxed runs ever. Sometimes listening to your body can actually pay off big time, it did for me!
Next time you could try with a bottle of Vodka... It helps me relaxing my muscles... But it might have some side effects, not sure about that.
ReplyDeleteInteresting suggestion! Never thought you were the vodka type ;-)
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