{"id":13149,"date":"2011-02-20T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2011-02-20T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:47:03","slug":"reevaluating-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/02\/reevaluating-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Reevaluating Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Spring is on it’s way here in Columbus. The birds are out signing more and the squirrles are chasing each other around. We had temps in the 50s and 60s last week which for us is a little unheard of at this time.\u00a0 It’s starting to stay lighter out more and we are starting to see little signs of life come back into the trees and gardens.<\/p>\n

While today is a grey, overcast and cool, the buds on our tree in the back keeps my spirits high because I know that winter will soon be past us.<\/p>\n

While I hate summer running, I am ready for some sunshine. This winter has been rough. We usually have a good deal of sun here in the winter but not this year. Most of the winter was grey, dark, and overcast.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure that it snowed close to everyday in December. Yuck!<\/p>\n

This week was a bit different with running, I only ran three times this week but they were decent runs with great mileage.\u00a0 Earlier in the week I got in a nice 6 mile run and a great 8 mile run.<\/p>\n

Today I ran 5 miles because I opted to sleep in over a big huge long run.\u00a0 This morning as I was deciding about whether to stay up for a long run or sleep in some more, I came to a realization about my running.<\/p>\n

I need to consider that just maybe I need to put the goal of a spring half on hold for now.\u00a0 School has me insanely busy and at the same time I’m maintaining this blog AND trying to plant seeds for my new business that I’m building as a Holistic Wellness Consultant.<\/p>\n

Right now it’s a lot of work. You can ask Scott how busy I’ve been and how much it’s wearing me out.<\/p>\n

Training for a spring half is weighting on my mind heavily and also causing me some anxiety.\u00a0 My running schedule at this point has to be more flexible due to all the new things I’m working on. There might be a day where I normally run that I can’t because I have a meeting or I’m too tired.\u00a0 Perfect example is last Wednesday would have been a normal 8 mile day for me.\u00a0 I couldn’t do it and I needed sleep big time. And sleep I did.<\/p>\n

For 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

I’m constantly worried about my mileage and have the thoughts of, “Oh my mileage was low this week.” Or “I really need to start bumping my mileage back up if I’m going to run in May.”<\/p>\n

It is stressing me out.\u00a0 I keep feeling like I’m constantly behind and almost like I have to rush to work on miles.<\/p>\n

I can’t rush or push things because I will get injured.\u00a0 I have no desire to get injured and be off running for a while.\u00a0 Been there, done that and I have no intention of living through it again.<\/p>\n

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Yeah I'm running..<\/p><\/div>\n

Running is my happy place. It makes me feel good and it’s my stress reliever. It shouldn’t be causing<\/em> me stress, ya know?<\/p>\n

And right now with school and business building, I need all the stress relieving activities that I can get.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 think I need to put the goal of a spring half on the backburner for now.\u00a0 It will be one less thing I have to worry about and I can continue to run without having mileage be this big burden for me. Running will return to being my happy place instead of a cause for concern.<\/p>\n

I’m still going to work on increasing my mileage because distance running makes me very happy.\u00a0 However I’m going to take my time and when it happens it happens.\u00a0 If it happens in time for a spring half, great I’ll sign up!\u00a0 If it doesn’t then no big deal.\u00a0 I do a few other smaller races this summer and just have fun.<\/p>\n

Once I came to this realization this morning, it felt like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. I’m a lot happier now that I can run and focus on that being my “me time” instead of stressing over numbers and a looming race date.<\/p>\n

Have you ever had to reevaluate your goals when it comes to running and exercise?\u00a0 How did you handle it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember guys, I don’t just run but also do other forms of exercise as well. I tend to only talk about running here though.\u00a0 You can follow my daily exercise adventures on Daily Mile<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is on it’s way here in Columbus. The birds are out signing more and the squirrles are chasing each other around. We had temps in the 50s and 60s last week which for us is a little unheard of at this time.\u00a0 It’s starting to stay lighter out more and we are starting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}