Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Friday, December 26, 2003 Strange runWhen I ran yesterday I felt strange. My legs didn't feel good. I felt like I was working harder than I really was, but I didn't really feel like I was working hard. I felt a bit unmotivated, despite a fine day for a run and a nice setting (the river trails in Lawrence). My legs didn't feel sore. They didn't feel "dead" the way they might after a tough run the day before. My legs just didn't feel right.I can't quite explain how I felt, but it was unusual enough that I spent some time thinking about it. Why did I feel that way? Should I be worried? How often have I felt that way in the past? How often do other people feel that way? Was yesterday a sign of worse things to come? Should I take a day off and rest? Is thinking about this just a waste of time? Checked some other training logs I decided it'd be interesting to look at some other training logs at Attackpoint. I was going to look at a bunch of different people and see how often they felt really good and really bad. I was going to see how often people described a feeling that sounded like my feeling yesterday. Turns out most people don't really describe much about how they felt. Most people (and I'm among them) just add a few notes about the session that distinguish it from other sessions (like who they trained with or where they went). I guess I was a bit surprised at how rarely people describe how they felt while training. When people do write something about how they feel it is usually about feeling bad rather than good or neutral. After looking at some training logs, I decided I'd just stop worrying about how I felt yesterday. Maybe I felt bad because I did a bit of cycling before the run. Maybe I felt bad because I ran at an unusual time of day (I usually run either earlier or later). Maybe it was just one of those days. Today I'll go for another run and see if how I feel. posted by Michael | 9:56 AM 
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