Jarhead’s Running Myths & Misadventures

Today I had the pleasure of joining Packman at the “Y” where we gave a presentation on motivation to one of the running clinic groups.  It was a ton of fun and I found myself wishing for the opportunity to do more of this kind of thing!  We were able to incorporate some of Packman’s MdS slides, some of the Gobi slides and a few other random pictures of our running adventures to tie everything together very nicely.

My weekend training was saved by some motivation techniques.  On Saturday I was totally wavering on going for a run, the weather was nasty and my couch and a video were calling, but a call from Packman in the afternoon changed that quickly.  He had some free time was going for a run and asked if was I into it - I shot over there as quickly as I could and we got in a great run in the wind and rain.

Sunday I was up for some FUN so I made it a point to sleep in and not worry about getting out early to train, I had no plans until much later in the afternoon.  I wasn’t too sure where I wanted to run at first but after my coffee Thetis Lake got stuck in my head.  This time I left the watch at home, filled up my new platypus bladder (it doesn’t quite fit properly in the HPL pack but it does work, I am waiting on a replacement bladder from Nathan) with some nuun, stuffed some Shot Blocks in the HPL then hit the trails.  I had no set course in mind and just wandered aimlessly for the most part - it was awesome!