At the end of 2019, I vividly remember reflecting upon the year. It was a heavy travel year for me for work and in writing down my goals for 2020, I wrote down that I wanted to travel less and spend more time at home with my family. I also vividly remember repeatedly complaining every time it was 40s and rainy last winter. It was such a lame winter, all rain and no snow. Where was the snow? I wished we'd get some decent snow. Enter the 2020 global pandemic and now a winter where there is snow in the forecast every few days. Well played, Universe, well played.
When I first started MAF training, the improvements were far and few between. I kept thinking I would be happy as soon as I was just able to run below 10 min/mile at MAF. My wish finally came true. However, once I did finally hit that milestone, I felt like I started getting injured. I'm not sure what caused it, but my left ankle and right knee started to bother me, so then I had to back off on the pace again. Currently, I'm trying my best to just be content with running comfortably during longer runs and to not pay too much attention to the pace.
I guess a lesson here for me has been to try to be more in the moment in general. To stop wishing for things I can't control and just to be present. Today, we all had a vacation day for President's Day. Normally, this weekend we'd be skiing somewhere. Last year, we went skiing and then stayed at an indoor water park for a couple of days. The whole scenario is unimaginable with the current environment. Today, instead of skiing, we went to a local park with long, fast hills and went sledding. There was a lot of laughing and joyous shrieking and a lot more exercise climbing back up the sledding hills. Unintentionally, we all did hill repeats. I'm not one that has a need for speed. If I'm skiing, I enjoy the long, easy meandering trails and avoid the steep technical ones. Today's sledding session was plenty fast for me. Flying down the hill on my belly and getting snow sprayed into my eyeballs was exhilarating. It was also great fun bombing down the hill in the same sled as the kids, often losing control and falling over in a heap together. Do I wish we had been skiing instead? Well, if I really think about it, today's adventure was free, we only had to spend 30 minutes total in the car and we stayed safe. My worry with skiing primarily has to do with having to be indoors for an extended period of time to rent ski equipment or having to hang out in the lodge when the kids get tired or cold. So, no, I don't wish we went skiing instead. The smiles on the kids' faces told me that they were happy and that they will remember how much fun we all had today.
Masks down just so I could capture their beautiful smiles
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