One run, two runs, three runs this week?

[rmc28]

Last week I ran Tuesday, as posted, and again on Thursday.  I didn't manage at the weekend, but that's a week with one run followed by a week with two, and this is the third week. Maybe I'll manage my target three this time?

I was feeling distinctly unenthused as 1pm approached today, but talked myself into going out anyway, mainly on the grounds that this was the time, I'd brought in my stuff, and if I missed it there would be no chance of getting three runs in this week.  And of course, once I'd started the warm-up walk I was feeling happier, and by the end of it I was feeling much happier in general.  It's a cold grey day here, but I picked a route that takes me on footpaths along the edge of the city, green farmland and open space stretching out into the distance and In Our Time gently talking in my headphones.

So now I am going into a busy afternoon a lot more centred and settled than I was before.  It's this kind of feeling that makes me want to keep running regularly.

Comments

[liv]

Yay progress. It's always lovely when you're demotivated from going out, but you do it anyway and it turns out to be a good run. All the research I've seen about habit forming agrees with you that it's really good to set a time when you're going to do the thing, you're much more likely to stick to it than if you just decide you're going to run "sometime this week".

[rmc28]

I suppose this is a side-benefit of having my time so constrained that I have to book time to do exercise :-)

For example, yesterday if I missed the lunchtime run then my next available time to run would have been "after the children are asleep" which is sometime between 8pm and 9:30pm depending on how the evening is going. By which point I would be tireder and it would be colder and dark and a bit more antisocial, and realistically would want to put it off to today lunchtime instead. But that means I wouldn't run Thursday, and Friday is very difficult to run in, so then I'd get in a max of 2 runs this week.

My main logistical challenge now is that I forgot to wash my kit yesterday so now I need to get it washed and put it through the tumble dryer if I want to run tomorrow.