My Journey With Weight Loss – Changing It Up

This is my least favourite time of year to be running/walking early in the morning. Why? Cobwebs! I absolutely hate those things and even after I have brushed them off I still feel like they are clinging to me. Today I got nailed by at least 6 of them and it nearly drove me crazy! I so hope this part of the season goes away soon.

My dad used to have this saying, if you get tired of walking, run because a change is as good as a rest. Now trust me that as a kid this made absolutely no sense to me but right I am starting to get what it means. I’ve been getting a bit bored with my running lately. It’s not that I don’t have beautiful scenery to watch or that I haven’t downloaded some good books to listen to, it’s just I feel like I am in some sort of a rut. I feel like doing the same thing day in and day out has gotten extremely boring and I need something new.

I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do about this without losing all the momentum I have gained and then it hit meet, find a new focus. I know I talked about having the goal of increasing my speed but that has been happening extremely slowly. So, I decided to cut back the distance of my runs and focus on doing 6k runs more frequently but to really push the speed. Now on my runs I push myself through as many speed intervals as possible. I’ve noticed that the intervals are getting longer and my pace has at times been the best I’ve done in all of my running (note, the pace bottoms out that last kilometer running up the hill). I’ve done this several times and am surprised at how quickly things have improved.

What does it look like now? Well, I have shaved a total of 8 minutes of my 6k and my average pace is the lowest it has ever been. Quite frankly, because I am seeing the improvement it makes again makes me eager to go out for a run. Tomorrow my goal will be to shave another 2 minutes of my run and if I am successful at that then Saturday I am bumping the distance up to 8k but still doing as many speed intervals as possible. Moreover, I am heading to the trailer next week and instead of dreading doing the boring route up there, I have already planned in my head how I can get an hour of interval training in each day and I am excited about it.

I guess Dad was right, this change has been as good as a rest.