How’s everyone keeping motivated these days. Training fairly consistently over the summer, a few time trials here and there, but now that the dark shorter days are upon us and no races in sight starting to lose that fire. Might start getting into lifting as cross training but just want to see what everyone else is doing.
train for and frequently solo tt 400-mile. this is honestly what i'd want to do in general but track races are just too hard to find in comparison to 5ks.
1: There are actual races on the calendar.
2: there’s a thread started about this every week
3: try harder
I put in my mask, look in the mirror, and swell with the pride of knowing that I am saving lives.
I hate not having races. I’ve started doing virtual races, out of desperation. I hate Covid. That’s twice I just used the word hate, which is a lot for a Canadian FYI.
If you're passionate about the sport you would not need to rely on motivation.
Organize a race man! I'm sure you know other runners.
"Hey guys, let's race"
I'm sure some people would be down.
We have had races here and there but small. Time trials with friends and runs with friends definitely help. Stay motivated! Its definitely hard. Change things up. Im a 5k/10k guy but my winter cycle basically i’m going to focus on speed/train for the mile. Then switch back to 5k/10k training for the spring into fall when hopefully more races happening.
There are plenty of races if you are willing to travel a bit. I ran the open race at RunningLane last Saturday.
flvmmox wrote:
train for and frequently solo tt 400-mile.
+1
I'm not getting any younger. Now's the time to see what I can do over shorter distances.
HLq wrote:
flvmmox wrote:
train for and frequently solo tt 400-mile.
+1
I'm not getting any younger. Now's the time to see what I can do over shorter distances.
This and/or think about the long term. COVID is temporary. I'm guessing, for most of us, that we're not done setting PRs (or setting goals) whenever we get out of this. I want to break 2:30 for the marathon in the long term. There aren't good racing opportunities right now so I'm focusing on the shorter stuff (5k-half) because I don't have the speed for sub-2:30 rn. COVID has helped me reset to some extent. I feel like I often get stuck in the pattern of racing two marathons a year. I do high mileage but, to be honest, that's not gonna get me to faster times if I don't improve my speed. It has helped my training to think long term. My marathon potential will be increased whenever I toe the next start line.
Do some solo test efforts. See how fast you can average for 8 400s starting one every 2 minutes. See if that average time is better than your best mile race time.
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