Maintaining a level of general fitness is a Good Thing. Running as a means of accomplishing general cardiovascular fitness is also a Good Thing. I set a goal at the beginning of the year that related to running, but due to a myriad of reasons, not the least being a strategic-level loss of GAS, I haven't been close to getting the miles in to keep up with it. At this point, I'd have to triple my current (admittedly low) mileage, and keep it at that level consistently for the next 5 months, just to get back on track. I don't think it's worth the potential for injury. I understand that, and can deal with it on an intellectual level. I know the goal is no longer valid, and I should still run for the CV health. Emotionally, though, giving up the goal is tough, and – when I allow it – irritates me to the point of wanting to toss in the towel on all fitness. Stupid goal. It's just hanging around, pointing fingers and laughing at me. Bastard.
For the most part – and for most people – goals are good things, in that they give incentive to accomplish that which might otherwise fall by the wayside: compete in a marathon, lose 20 pounds, finish a book, get an A in Statistical Analysis of Differential Equations As They Relate to Astrophysical Gravitational Bodies Larger Than Thirty Solar Masses Class this fall – you know, that sort of thing. But what happens when the attainment of the goal becomes patently unrealistic? What happens when the goal is now just hanging around, mocking your efforts? In a situation like that, does the goal actually become a deterrent to doing the positive things that would move you along further toward it, regardless? I'm at that point in my running.
Maintaining a level of general fitness is a Good Thing. Running as a means of accomplishing general cardiovascular fitness is also a Good Thing. I set a goal at the beginning of the year that related to running, but due to a myriad of reasons, not the least being a strategic-level loss of GAS, I haven't been close to getting the miles in to keep up with it. At this point, I'd have to triple my current (admittedly low) mileage, and keep it at that level consistently for the next 5 months, just to get back on track. I don't think it's worth the potential for injury. I understand that, and can deal with it on an intellectual level. I know the goal is no longer valid, and I should still run for the CV health. Emotionally, though, giving up the goal is tough, and – when I allow it – irritates me to the point of wanting to toss in the towel on all fitness. Stupid goal. It's just hanging around, pointing fingers and laughing at me. Bastard.
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