Running under pressure

Time it took me to run home: 39:10

It was a fairly quick run home tonight, and it feels like a shorter run than it used to, which is good. Building up the distance is still going to be hard, but if 40 or so minutes can feel like a quick jog, four and a half hours can’t be all that much harder, can it?

I also ran on Tuesday, but forgot my Garmin and apart from needing to go to the toilet quite badly and having to stop twice during the run as a result, it was uneventful.

At the moment, I’m listening to one of those motivational audiobooks, in an attempt to find something that works with the stress that I’m carrying around at the moment. I’ll get through the book in the next week or two, and hopefully there’s something that I can use to help me. I don’t have much of a problem with making goals, just a problem with the day to day to-do lists and motivating myself toward the longer term objectives. The only thing on my long term big goal list that I’ve even been working on is the big marathon goal, and I don’t know why. Is it easier to lengthen my long run and run home from work twice a week than it is to get a book finished and edit it? Maybe. I think I’m afraid of starting something that seems too daunting to finish. Maybe I have more faith in my running ability and my body than I do in my writing talent (or lack of talent, as the case may be).