I have to get out of this thing about Sundays being a disaster. They always are— I don’t whether it’s just because it’s the first day of the new training week or what, but Sunday throws me, and that’s not a good habit to get into because 34 weeks from today, Sunday will be Marathon Day, and I can’t afford to have a bad day on that day.

I’m pretty sure it’s entirely psychological; I was supposed to start staggering my run lengths this week, having a 40-minute run today and 30-minute runs the rest of the week. So I knew today would be hard, but I made it much harder than it had to be by stopping after 12 minutes and walking. I’ve done steady 30-minute non-stop runs for two weeks now, so there was no reason whatsoever for me to give up after 12 minutes, except that I started all this self-talk about how 40 minutes is just forever and that I deserved to have a break. And I’m one of these people that once I take a break, it’s almost impossible to get my momentum back. So the rest of the run was more of a walk interspersed with pathetic joggy-type-bouncy stuff in 10-second intervals. It was unnecessary, and I came home feeling how I’ve felt the last 4 Sundays in a row: annoyed that I wasn’t firmer with my self-discipline. Let down. Disappointed.

So in light of today’s lack of events, I’m going to attempt the 40-minute run again on Thursday. Bet you I nail it, too— I always do fine from Monday onward. And I’ve got to do some hard thinking and work out a way to get past the Sunday mental block, because this just won’t do.

I also made a mistake with my music this morning. Up until now I’d been running with just a few long songs spanning 30 minutes, because then I can think of the run in terms of how many songs there are left to go. So today for my 40-minute playlist I decided to load up lots of little short songs to see if that was easier or more difficult than a few long songs, and since I’ve been really digging the new CocoRosie album I thought I’d pop all those little songs on with a couple of extras to pad out the time (the album is only 34 minutes long in total, spread over 12 songs). That experiment, too, was a disaster. CocoRosie is awesome music, but it’s awful to run to, and having to run for 12 songs is desperately depressing. I lost track at about the fourth or fifth song, and after that all I knew was that I didn’t know how many more songs I had to go, but it was like a million or something. I think it was soon after that when I gave up and started walking.

So tomorrow’s playlist is back down to only 4 songs, starting with a long one (11 minutes) and ramping down to the shortest one (4 minutes). I used this method three weeks in a row, and it worked, so I’m going back to it. I’m also ditching the CocoRosie in favour of some old-but-good Out Hud. We’ll see how it matches up next to The Chemical Brothers (that’s a hard one to beat).

I lost a couple more pounds this week, so that’s all good, but on the down side, I dropped the iron on my foot this morning. At first I thought my toe must be broken, but I’m changing my mind about that. It’s painful, but not broken-painful. I’ll see how it feels in the morning before making a decision about whether or not to run. I’d rather err on the side of caution, but I really don’t think it’s that serious.

So, I did better in Week 3 than Week 2, but Week 4 is off to a slow start (literally). Tomorrow morning is my beach run (toe permitting), and that’s my favourite run, so with any luck I’ll pull it together like I have every previous Monday and take over the world.

These weeks are flying by.

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