Catch Me When I Stumble

Catch Me When I Stumble

Some Things I Just Can No Longer Stress About

We all have heard it before and understand the logic of letting things roll off our back but often times our logical self sub-comes to our illogical self and just can't let it roll. 

A friend recently told me I needed to let all the "junk" go, like water off a ducks back.

Well that has been happening way too much lately to me (or should I say the last 2 years). Thankfully, with a lot of introspection, I am slowly coming back to reality... albeit not by choice but out of necessity.  


What's up???  IDK....what's not UP? ...there's this gnawing feeling I've been experiencing recently way down, way deep down inside of me. Things, all of them intrinsically wrong, have been pushing my buttons.  I'm just going to label it stress and leave it at that.

Stress defined: A constraining force or influence: such as a state resulting from a stress; especially : one of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium.

So my journey begins...and here's my list of things that are no longer worth the stress and I am going to let roll off my back.

1. Worrying about what others think and say
2. Seeking approval
3. Thinking I'm overreacting about something
4. Super Mom Syndrome ..thinking I can do it all
5. Affects of Aging


Now I begin the process of just letting it roll. Keep me in your thoughts.

Be Well

Run Like a Mother!

Run Like a Mother! - Ragnar Relay 2013

Run Like a Mother ! 

That is what 11 other moms and I have committed to for 2013.

My 5 Month Plan

you know there always has to be one of these..

Put in the Miles - 10-15 miles a week.  Lot for me, not so for most others. 

Increase individual runs by 10% per week, while making every third week a easy week of maintenance of previous weeks pace and distance.

Hill Repeat Training.  Needed due to the Great River ...lots of hills I am told. Makes sense since we are running from Winona along the Mississippi River to St. Paul / Minneapolis.

Incorporate speed training, strength, and cross training (What my husband refers to as my "what should I do this week?" poking fun of my never ending jumping around from training to training) which we all know helps prevent the occurrence of overuse injuries.

Work in back to back runs in 24 hour period last 4-6 weeks before race with several nighttime runs thrown in. 

Need to run a few middle of the day, hot summer blacktop runs...to get used to the heat and figure out my re-hydration / glucose  strategy to prevent  "Hitting the Wall" due to dehydration or simply running out of fuel during the run.

For those who know me well will agree, my biggest hurdle will be to not get caught up in the excitement of the race and start any leg out too fast....

Just Race My Own Race 

&

Keep My Turtle Pace

Be Well