Week 3. So far I didn’t have any truly hard day. Until today. I woke up this morning and I was still feeling sick (at the end of the season, when the tension ends and you start to rest a little, this is usually when most of us divers get sick. I am part of the lot. Every season). Also yesterday I got stung by a big insect on the knee and it is now 3 times its normal size, quite sore and extremely itchy... Anyway. Getting up was not that bad, I felt quite rested, so I just got up, put on my running outfit and went out for a run. I am still at the very beginning of the programme so I only go running for 7 minutes everyday. God these 7 minutes were looooong... My legs felt really heavy, my breathing could not find its rythm, even my arms felt heavy and useless. After what seemed to be an eternity, I looked at my watch to discover that I have been running for... 2:35 minutes ! God some days it is just so hard... In the end, I finished the run and gratrefully sat down on my porch sweating like I have been running a 10K...
This reminds me of a book that I just finished from the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami (What I talk about when I talk about running). Murakami is a writer but also a runner and when he was preparing this book, he went and met with a few profesionnal runners to interview them. To one of them (Japanese runner, I can’t remember his name), he asked if he ever had any days when he just didn’t feel like getting up and go run. The runner looked at him like it was the most stupid question he has ever heard and answered “of course, it happens to me all the time”. Isn’t that nice to know that even professionnal runners struggle some days ? Well anyway, it does help me. I am not the only one struggling. And there will be some hard days. A few. Otherwise what's the challenge ?
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