{"id":717,"date":"2014-02-06T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=717"},"modified":"2014-02-06T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:17:59","slug":"how-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…if you are listening to your body or just giving up?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I think of all the difficult things in running, the hardest to figure out is when to push yourself and when to say it is ok to take a break. Let’s face it, there is a big difference between your body needing a break and your brain deciding it’s just not worth the effort. The problem is they both sort of feel the same. Obviously if your body is screaming in pain you know where the message is coming from and what your reaction should be. But what about when you just feel tired? How do you know if that is a mental thing or a physical thing?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately today was one of those days when I lost the battle with the voice that said I was too tired. I got myself out the door, I guess that can count as an accomplishment. Everything was in place to have a good run; sunny skies, no wind, a temperature well into the negatives but comfortable nonetheless. The only thing not up for a perfect run – ME. When you feel the need to walk at the 2k mark you know it is not going to be an epic run. In fact, after a mere 3.5 km, my run dwindled to a walk. All kinds of negative talk went through my head. If you have had bad runs you know that dialogue all too well. Everything from “I’m too old for this $&@!” to “I have no natural athletic skills whatsoever and I should just be sitting on a couch eating potato chips,” went through my mind. <\/p>\n

When I stopped running and went for a 3k walk instead, was I quitting or was I respecting what my body was able to do on a particular day at a particular moment? I wish I had the answer. Unfortunately I can’t shake the feeling that today I simply stopped trying. <\/p>\n

Cue more internal dialogue in an attempt to convince myself that all is well, an off day is nothing to worry about, tomorrow is another day, there will be better runs, blah, blah, blah, blah. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…if you are listening to your body or just giving up? I think of all the difficult things in running, the hardest to figure out is when to push yourself and when to say it is ok to take a break. Let’s face it, there is a big difference between your body needing a break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}