No failure is a failure if you learn from it.
Goal weight: 185 lbs.
Today’s weight: 193.4 lbs.
I wish every run was rainbows and puppies and sunshine. But they’re not. Today’s run, pardon me for the crude but accurate description, just plained sucked. I started out and by mile two, my heart rate was well over 160. That’s WAY too high for my old age and for a long run. And it got worse from there.
I can make excuses why it was like that.
1. I was scoped this week. They had to knock me out to stick the tube down my throat. I’m sure my body still has anesthesia in it.
2. I haven’t put in as much mileage lately due to an injury. I’m sure I’ve lost some fitness.
3. The humidity was abnormally high. It was like running in syrup out there today. And it was hot. I sweated early and often.
4. I ran out of water.
By mile six, I was hitting a wall. I walked-ran and then started to get dizzy by mile eight. My socks were soaked and I limped back to the house after a miserable 9.36 miles. And to make matters worse, my toes just cramped.
Life is like this sometime. I guess I could quit running because I had a bad day. I could mope around because I failed. But I won’t. I’ll learn from my mistakes. My failures. My miserable run and make sure not to repeat what I did wrong today. It’s a trait that you can take into your personal and professional life as well. Any failure isn’t a failure if you truly learn something from it.
I learned that bad runs happen and I have more work to do. I know next week’s run will be much better. Beacause it’s all part of my journey from fit to fat to fit.
Thanks for sharing this Marshall. I don’t run, but had a yucky day. I am still trying to think what went wrong and how to get to feeling back to normal—whatever that is? Good luck to you this week, with determintation and not quitting we will both improve.
“Endeavor to persevere.”