Back to build, back to journaling

New year, new goals. The first one is the Ballart Half Marathon at the end of April, with 15 weeks to go.

Another goal is to keep journaling, at least once a week. As usual, I was gonna give up this journaling project just like before. Until I heard this analogy in this podcast with the author of Atomic Habits: Our journey of chasing the one we want to be is like Sisyphus pushing the stone. Once you stop moving it, it goes all the way back, resets. Journaling will make me better at things, not just running, so I will keep pushing the stone.

My running hasn’t gone backwards too much. I did some stride sessions last week, plus an 11 km long run (for me). This week, I started looking forward to training. I was looking forward to the easy-ish one-hour run, and I was looking forward to the tempo session. I can feel it in my body, which is the biggest indicator of readiness, I believe.

Importantly, journaling practically enables experiments. For the first half of the build, I am going to replace my Tuesday speed session (400 meters) with a medium distance (6-8km) run with a lot of strides. I will go for a few parkruns to benchmark this practice.

Happy to be back!