This morning, I foolishly convinced myself that I needed an extra hour and a half of sleep, being that it was Monday morning and all, and skipped my 5:30 AM. BIG MISTAKE!!!
Everyone knows that hitting the snooze button only makes waking up worse: it's basically the equivalent of waking up over and over and over again, all in the same morning. As if waking up once isn't bad enough, especially on a Monday morning.
Needless to say, I was miserable this morning, and sluggish, and unmotivated, and cranky, and...need I go on. From the moment I stepped out of my door, I regretted skipping my run. I beat myself up all day for not running, moping and dragging throughout the workday.
So, despite the fact that I was completely unmotivated and drained from being at work all day, I tried to pump myself up to head straight to the gym to make up my 30 minute run. And that's exactly way I did. I came home, changed immediately, and headed right back out the door.
I cranked up my iPod and breezed through 30 minutes on the dreadmill at a 5.0 mph (12:00-minute mile) pace, for a total of 2.5 miles. I couldn't believe how energized I felt 10 minutes into my run. I even had to catch myself a few times because I realized I was actually singing along with my tunes out loud. I was so amped!
I've read that if you can't hold a conversation while running, then you're probably running too fast; and that if you can sing out loud while running then you're probably running too slow. So, I even though about cranking up the speed on the dreadmill, but I decided to be conservative and stick with 5.0 mph. Plus, I was having a great time running at that pace!
I was completely pumped after my run! I went home, showered, did some much needed cleaning that I've been avoiding for a few days, folded some laundry that had been sitting for a week, and organized my 'shoe collection' a.k.a. shoes that had piled up all over the place because I was too lazy to put them away when I took them off.
The moral of the story is...
- In the future, I'll need a really good reason to skip my morning run. That extra hour and a half of sleep was NOT worth it.
- The next time I'm feeling sluggish and unmotivated, I'll lace up my sneakers and go for a run.
- When my apartment starts to get a little messy due to my perpetual lack of domestic motivation, a 2.5-mile run may do the trick.
Still wired from my run 4 hours ago,
Almost Thirty
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