Woke up this morning at 4:45 and was out running 5 minutes later, with the words "Is this wise?" echoing between my ears. It was actually quite pleasant, plodding along in the silence, obviously still dark, light rain and very very few cars out and about. For the first 15 minutes I didn’t see anyone or anything moving save a bit of wildlife. It was a steady outing, nothing extraordinary but good to add to the bank. As I ran I concluded that it is only an obsession if the extraordinary becomes the ordinary and that somehow is damaging. How would I know it is damaging? So I devised a checklist:
I am losing my grip on what is reasonable when more than 3 of these happen:
1. Borderline obsessive things happen more than once in a week
2. My wife says "You are mad" in an angry rather than pitying way
3. I am unable to complete the planned sessions in the week through exhaustion
4. I am so tired that I cannot work/drive/be sociably effective or a good dad/husband
5. Training becomes a chore and not a pleasure
With this in mind I headed for the pool at 10:00pm. With the words “Is this wise?” ringing in my ears, I was relieved to see a few other people swimming up and down whilst the rest of the world was thinking about heading off to bed. It was great. My intention of doing half an hour turned into just under the hour as I mixed between arms only and full crawl, I had a lane all to myself and it felt just wonderful. This late swiming definately has its advantages and surely we can all be barking?
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