Being able to distinguish between a trough and a mere dip is a bit like owning a grapefruit knife. It’s hardly ever needed, but invaluable when it is.
I’m having a dip. Today was supposed to be my 12 mile long run day, as part of the wind down to the Hamburg Marathon in two weeks time. 12 miles today, went the daydream, with a restful 3 or 4 tomorrow. Butit hasn’t happened, and with the few beers consumed this evening, I’m not sure it will happen tomorrow either.
I woke up knackered after a late night in front of the computer, where I’d been kicking off the lengthy (in fact, eternal) task of sprucing up this website and migrating over to runningcommentary.net.It’s been on the cards for over a year now, and can’t be put off any longer. The site’s been going for 3½ years now and needs some fresh impetus. For a long time, the diaries and the forum have been the only moving parts, and I want this to change to increase the site’s usefulness.
I also need to dabble in a few TLAs like RSS, PHP and XML, but, in the words of the great Mississippi John Hurt, that ain’t nobody’s business but my own. (Unless, of course…..)
So I stayed up half the night doing stuff, then woke this morning feeling like doing nothing.
It’s an unwanted disruption to the marathon training which, on the whole, has gone pretty well. I’ve run only twice this week, and need to keep my enthusiasm topped up. The first time I went through this I’d have been very dispirited by missing a run and feeling as floppy as I have done all week. But it’s happened a few times before, and I now know that, well, these things happen.
It’s an old cliché, but it’s how you respond to setbacks rather than whether or not they occur, that’s important. We’ll see…
