The Lazy Man's Guide to [ultra]Marathon Running: a Mad Mathematician's Research-based Easy Does It Method for Optimal Training Efficiency by Professor Sky Pelletier Waterpeace

Author:Professor Sky Pelletier Waterpeace [Waterpeace, Professor Sky Pelletier]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Integral Text Publishing
Published: 2020-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-one

Putting Yourself In the

Mindset

It makes sense on some basic level that since I’m already dressed to run, I may as well at least go outside. Once outside, I start running.

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The day after I wrote the section on getting dressed in my running gear as a method to get me out the door for a run, I found myself using that exact method in an unusual circumstance. It was Saturday, and I had decided I would do a long run (I consider anything ten miles or longer to be a long run) on Sunday. I’d considered running to a nearby (18 miles away) state park and meeting some friends there, then catching a ride home with them. However, they hadn’t confirmed that they were definitely going, and if they were going, I wasn’t sure if the timing would work out or whether I’d have to get up super-early in order to make it. You may think that my willingness to get up and run at 3am makes me willing to get up at 6am as well, but the beauty of an easy run at 3am is that I can go home and hop back in bed afterwards and still get a few more hours of sleep. By the time I finish a long run starting at 6am, it’s that time of the day when civilized people think going back to bed for several hours is not okay.

So anyway, I wasn’t sure whether the “run to the state park” plan would work out, and I questioned my motivation to go for a long run around town and possibly miss the state park trip if the timing wasn’t right. However it might work out, I definitely didn’t want to have to get up early! I was hanging around my house and realized I was already late for a barbecue at a friend’s house, a location that seemed to me was about a twenty-minute drive away. I quickly checked google maps and discovered the walking distance was 14.1 miles. I thought, “Perfect, I’ll run to the party, and I know there will be someone there that can give me a ride home...”

Next, I thought, “Nah,” and I put on a regular pair of shorts. In an instant I remembered the words of motivation I’d written just the night before. Putting out of my mind the consequences of what I was doing, I quickly stripped off my regular clothes and put on wicking underwear and a pair of running shorts. I then gathered my mp3 player and my hydration backpack, sunglasses and sunscreen, cell phone and all that jazz, and I was out the door in fifteen minutes.

It was hot. Not terribly hot, not as hot as it had been some days that summer, but high 80s at least. “Good weather for training,” I told myself, since I had a 24-hour race two weeks later. I walked a few blocks to warm up and then started jogging at an easy pace. My plan

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