Running changes on the low horizon
It's fall, for sure. Walking out from work it was nearly dark, another week and it should be totally dark around 4:45 or so. Yucky.
Weird that it's the same time of day as just 60 days ago and yet the mental challenge of getting out for an early or late run is so much tougher now. But as always, it's well worth it. We'll have different runs due to the weather and darkness, slower, more bundled up, more laundry to do! Yet, we continue on through the fall in preparation for a couple of very cold winter months.
What keeps me going is the freshness of each and every day, the newness of a cold crisp morning with stars shining and creatures treading quietly through the woods where we run. It's a very different running-scape versus our warm weather months, some days the snow covered park is so strikingly beautiful if feels as if I've run to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada or the Big Sky lands of Montana.
Although it's known as the off season for most distance runners, we still need to keep up our routines to maintain as much of the fitness we've worked so hard to gain throughout the spring and summer. Runs will be slower, but sometimes longer. Intervals and tempo runs will be less frequent but on those days we get a dry trail and a warm day we'll do our best to get in a quicker paced training session.
As I get ready for sleep I know the alarm will help me rise and meet my training partner Dave at 5:30 am, but I look past the darkness and know I'll enjoy a great start to the day. I hope your runs over the next few months are just as rewarding.
Weird that it's the same time of day as just 60 days ago and yet the mental challenge of getting out for an early or late run is so much tougher now. But as always, it's well worth it. We'll have different runs due to the weather and darkness, slower, more bundled up, more laundry to do! Yet, we continue on through the fall in preparation for a couple of very cold winter months.
What keeps me going is the freshness of each and every day, the newness of a cold crisp morning with stars shining and creatures treading quietly through the woods where we run. It's a very different running-scape versus our warm weather months, some days the snow covered park is so strikingly beautiful if feels as if I've run to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada or the Big Sky lands of Montana.
Although it's known as the off season for most distance runners, we still need to keep up our routines to maintain as much of the fitness we've worked so hard to gain throughout the spring and summer. Runs will be slower, but sometimes longer. Intervals and tempo runs will be less frequent but on those days we get a dry trail and a warm day we'll do our best to get in a quicker paced training session.
As I get ready for sleep I know the alarm will help me rise and meet my training partner Dave at 5:30 am, but I look past the darkness and know I'll enjoy a great start to the day. I hope your runs over the next few months are just as rewarding.
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