Tough run=satisfying

5 miles on the schedule today......

I don't always talk about my daily runs but this was a good one, believe it or not.

So last night, like every night, I go onto Accuweather to check out the morning's weather.  It was predicting in the high 20's with a "feels like" temperature in the mid teens.  The reason it was going to be so cold?  18 mile per hour winds......crap.

So now all I'm thinking until I went to bed was how miserable this run is going to be.  The morning then plays out like this:

4:45am - Alarm goes off.  I can hear the wind howling outside.  The weatherman was correct :(
4:50am - my wife says to me, it's really windy out there
4:55am - wondering if I should run today
4:55am - get up and get ready all the time thinking I should not run
5:05am - my wife comes out when I'm ready to leave to again tell me how windy it is....thanks dear.
5:10am - I'm outside ready to run...which way should I go - this usually determines my distance that morning.  I go right - my short route and plan to only do 3 miles.  It's too damn cold and windy out.
5:20am - This wind is killing me.  I don't even have a marathon planned right now.  What am I thinking?
5:25am - I should have ran on the treadmill today(you know it's bad when I'm thinking this)
5:33am - Ok, I'm almost done.(at 3 miles)  Thank God since it's so windy out.
5:35am - I'm about to turn back into my subdivision....but...I can do more.  Don't be a wimp.
5:51am - I did it.  5 miles.  I made it through it.

So the actual running of the five miles was not hard but getting through this run given the wind was tough mentally. I kept trying to wimp out and not do what was scheduled but I got though it - quite fast, I might add.

I would put this run in one of my top runs this year.  Why, you ask?  Because for those of you that have run a marathon(or even if you have not), this is how you second guess yourself when you are at the end of the marathon(at least I do).  While it was only 5 miles, I pushed my mind ahead and kept going which makes it a very satisfying run.  I came home feeling like I really accomplished something today - a very satisfying run.

Question of the day:  Have you had a tough run you pulled yourself through?




Have a great day and.....Keep Running!!!!