I just wrote about 1,000 words and then realised it wasn’t really a blog post. It was just me thinking through my training plan for my running for the summer. I even went and planned out my mileage for the whole summer. Then I felt frustrated because according to my plan I will only get […]
Habits, perfection and energy
It seems to be so easy to let a day go by without posting, and then another one, and before you know it you have completely let go of a habit that you felt you were really enjoying and completing easily. For me, especially with blogging, because it tends to be one of the last […]
Keep it simple, keep it easy
It’s so easy, I find, to tip over from relaxed, happy, and positive to straining, striving, and worrying, and trying to fit too much in. Yesterday evening, I completely accidentally happened across a YouTube video about running, and had an aha moment about including threshold paced training into my week. It felt like the missing […]
Letting go
I’m writing a blog post on a Sunday for a change! For once I have a very lazy Sunday as I’m in the taper for my ultra which is happening next Saturday and I was feeling very tired yesterday so have decided to take a day off running today. I actually have a weekday-like day […]
Applying ACIM to running
Not sure how this is going to work but I thought, for today’s blog post, I would do a commentary on lesson 53 of A Course in Miracles, which is a review of lessons 11 to 15. So lesson 11 is: My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world The explanation of that lesson […]
Patience, comparison, playing the long game
I’m just going straight into a blog post from my morning journaling and writing because I started off writing today about letting things be easy and going with the flow and resisting this comparisonitis sort of thing, and by the end of my writing (I try to write 1,667 words every day, which should equate […]