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It’s been months since I could get my running regime to be consistent. I use to run at least 3 times a week. Now I’m lucky if I could get in once a week, at a very short distance. The lack of momentum makes me feel scared to run because I’m becoming unfit, and because of fear, I actually avoid running. I used to be able to do this. There must be something in the past that can guide me. So I asked myself:
I joined a group. That helped. I tried searching for one. Either the day is not right, or the time is not right. There was one that used to work. Parkrun. It’s free. It’s 5 km. It’s on a Saturday morning before the world distracts you. I shall join that again.
Apart from that, I need some other way to integrate running into my daily life so that running can become routine again. There’s school run in the morning. So the only other time I figured is after work. I could run home again. So that’s what I scheduled. 2 more days spread out over the week that I will run home.
If Eliud Kipchoge, the current world record holder of the full marathon, keeps meticulous records of his runs, I think I should do so too. So I created an IFTTT trigger, where every time I log a run on Strava, there is a reminder set to remind me to journal my run. Just a brief note on what I did and how did I feel, and what I think I should do the next time. Let’s see where this will take me.
