Don't feel bad about feeling bad
On Tuesday of this week I had a bad training run. I was to run 5 miles of my run just slightly faster than race pace – the pace I want to run in the half marathon I’m registered for next weekend. I didn’t do it. I couldn’t do it. I started getting WAY tired 2 and a half miles into it. Well…I completely freaked out. I started believing that I couldn’t run the pace I wanted in the race. I started thinking that all my training was for nothing…why was I running all these miles, if I couldn’t step up and do what I wanted in a race? I questioned the point of it all. I got to thinking I’d never reach my goals. I was upset. I was frustrated. I could also see that I was over-reacting. I rationally knew that it was just one training run. There [...]

