I'm finding myself highly unmotivated lately. Ii have my second marathon coming up in May, and I'm skipping more runs than I should, and cutting others short. My weight is up 4 pounds, over my panic weight, and 11 pounds up from where I was at this time last year.
My excuse is last year the weather was so much nicer, and it I could get outside to run. I think I ran maybe 10 runs total on the treadmill last winter. This winter for the last few weeks, I've been able to get outside maybe once or twice a week because I'm in the Midwest and we have had crazy negative windchills, or my son has been home, so I can't leave him alone. I'm good to go outside as long as the windchill is above zero, I can do single digits, but when it gets below zero, it's just too cold for me. I also won't run outside if it's totally ice covered, snow and slush doesn't bother me.
I think this lack of motivation started over winter break. MY older son spent most of the break at his Dad's house, so I was home alone with my 6 year old, meaning that for 2 weeks, I have to run on the treadmill, minus a few runs I got in on Christmas and New Years when my husband was home. I did those runs, but I think that's what burnt me out on the treadmill. Also, I'm convinced my treadmill goes faster than it says, so I have to work harder. For example, if I'm feeling good and the roads are ok, I have no problem holding just under a 9 minute mile for 6 miles outside. Like it's comfortably hard. I feel like I could go a little faster, and I'm not killing myself to go that pace. If I were racing a 10k, I'd go faster. When I run at 6.7 on my treadmill, it's like I'm killing myself. My heart rate also is way higher on the treadmill, which is another reason why I think it's going faster. Also, I ran at 6.7 at a gym about a month ago, and it seemed pretty much like it does outside. So knowing this, you would think I would just knock my speed down to 6.3 or 6.4 on my treadmill, because I know it goes faster. I just have a hard time doing that though, I feel like I'm cheating. I wish I had a foot pod for my garmin so I could go by that instead of what the treadmill says.
Since it's -30 windchill today, I'll be on the treadmill. I think what I need to do is just run by heartrate. Like normally when I'm outside and running right under a nine minute mile my heartrate stays around 140-145, so I need to just run at whatever speed on the treadmill that gives me the same heartrate, and stop worrying about what speed my treadmill says I'm going at. Yep, that's what I'm going to do, because as it is now, I've been dreading my runs because I know it will just be an hour of hell.
I also wish I could have my treadmill in the house, it's in the garage now, and it's so boring out there, I have no TV, all I can do is listen to music or a audio book on my phone.
Oh, here is my other excuse about my weight, my husband has been working a lot of overtime, so he's been wanting to eat out a lot since we have the money. So me, who also likes to eat out, doesn't say no. So I've been eating like crap, which not only makes me gain weight, but also makes me feel like crap, making my workouts feel harder, and making it to where I just feel like I want to lay around all day and do nothing. I don't know why, I just feel like I'm in such a funk lately, like getting ready and going to the grocery store feels like it's a major task.
I'm putting it out here, I will run 6 miles on the treadmill today!
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