finally jumped back on the horse.... and completed OHR W6D2!!! This was one of my best-feeling runs ever, I guess not running for a little while did the trick!

finally jumped back on the horse.... and completed OHR W6D2!!! This was one of my best-feeling runs ever, I guess not running for a little while did the trick!

Yay! Those feelgood runs are so important! Welcome back to running. Were you just healing up an injury?

No Meg, I was just kind of getting lazy and falling out of it. I am usually one of those all or nothing people, like I'm either dieting full force or just pigging out. So I got into a rut of "well I haven't run in a while, so I may as well give up for now and start again some other day". But anyway that run was great... today's was even better. Not as good feeling, a little more excruciating, but definitely my longest run ever... 41 minutes. So now I've completed OHR week 6!!

I am usually one of those all or nothing people, like I'm either dieting full force or just pigging out.

You know, eyedocguy, I have this same problem. Last year, I started low-carb dieting, swimming, hiking and running all at the same time. I was logging every calorie and resented any request that interfered with my schedule. About 12 weeks in, I started getting really bad leg cramps. Not just those cramps that come on the flip turns at the pool, but while I was walking, sleeping and sitting. Yeah, my body was telling me that it was NOT happy. I had to stop what I was doing and ended up back down on my "just a few dog walks each week" schedule. One year later and I'm really trying to resist the urge to go overboard. I'm trying to eat all good things, but I'm not dieting, even though it's tempting. So, I'm getting kind of philosophical here, but I have often felt that I developed this schedule from participating in sports in school. I started running in HS and life revolved around CC, then track season and by the time we were done, I'd kind of crash and burn. I also ran in college and had the same extremes - heavy training or barely any training. Incorporating exercise into my life as maintenance has been very challenging. I swear that this time is going to be it for me. I'm trying to take it easy - for the long run. I think it will be the ultimate challenge for me!!