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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Mundane Times

There seems to be an unpreventable burnout for my runining every three months or so.
Today I feel like I am back to being burnt out... or at least somewhere very near burnout. True burnout is aweful; a pure loss of desire. It's easy to not run when I'm truly burnt out because frankly, I am by definition burnt out on running. Indeed, I still want to run these days. I am full of desire and ambition, but things are getting mundane. I don't feel like I'm working towards anything despite the fact that I have a half marathon in 2 1/2 weeks, and a big track season after that.
I think what I'm currently pushing through isn't a case of running burn out. I think it's a case of running gone mundane. The roads are wet with rain, the sky dreary with clouds, and the landscape old and uninspiring. Perhaps I need some new routes, perhaps I need a rest. I still feel good after running, so I don't think that the latter is true. I am more in touch with my body now than ever. But constantly running the same roads, the same trails, the same treadmill, the same tracks; nursing the same injuries, trying solve the same problems... it gets old after a while.
Mundane times are difficult to get rhrough, but they aren't quite burnout. If I keep my goals close to heart, and my passion in my veins, I know I will eventuall bounce out of this. FIAGW

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