“Your plan is flawed.”
What do you do when someone tells you that? After all, everything you have been doing so far is correct by your standards and has caused you no grief.
I am a real proud person. I am also a teacher and a person of authority. I am used to bossing people around and even my peers and bosses respect my opinions.
I am also a self-taught person. You give me the basics and I can take off from there. I am a keen observer of lessons and experts.
I am also very competitive. Would you believe that I compete even with 10-year olds on stuff I am interested in? How childish can that be?
So, when someone comes by and throws me that statement, it should really tick me off, right?
Wrong.
I am competitive and I want to improve. I am also impatient yet practical. If there’s a way to fast track things with some sacrifices, then I am all ears to what anyone can suggest so that I become a better teacher, student, person or in this case……. a better runner.
I have been running for close to 7 months now, running about 40K a week. I have had 8 races under my belt, each time better (or close) to my training time. My race results had all been good, considering that I am a newbie, keeping myself in the upper 15% most, if not all, of the time. I had a couple of injuries, all manageable and tolerable. I felt I was getting somewhere with my goal to run my first marathon. I even had the temerity to ask the running community to critique my “program”.
It is through my opening of my training program to the community that I have found a learned runner to tell me that I have flaws in my program. And I thought I was doing great! Dang!!!
To cut the story short, I have to do quite a paradigm shift and undo some of the tricks I thought worked for me. And to top that, I have to bring up my mileage to tire myself out. Heck, I take a day break in-between runs to save myself from fatigue, and now this? Well, that’s all part of the deal and I have to adhere to it to be better.
So, hang on to your seats as we journey together and discover if my mentor’s plan will work. I am a willing disciple.
My plan is flawed? Okay, give me better :-)
What do you do when someone tells you that? After all, everything you have been doing so far is correct by your standards and has caused you no grief.
I am a real proud person. I am also a teacher and a person of authority. I am used to bossing people around and even my peers and bosses respect my opinions.
I am also a self-taught person. You give me the basics and I can take off from there. I am a keen observer of lessons and experts.
I am also very competitive. Would you believe that I compete even with 10-year olds on stuff I am interested in? How childish can that be?
So, when someone comes by and throws me that statement, it should really tick me off, right?
Wrong.
I am competitive and I want to improve. I am also impatient yet practical. If there’s a way to fast track things with some sacrifices, then I am all ears to what anyone can suggest so that I become a better teacher, student, person or in this case……. a better runner.
I have been running for close to 7 months now, running about 40K a week. I have had 8 races under my belt, each time better (or close) to my training time. My race results had all been good, considering that I am a newbie, keeping myself in the upper 15% most, if not all, of the time. I had a couple of injuries, all manageable and tolerable. I felt I was getting somewhere with my goal to run my first marathon. I even had the temerity to ask the running community to critique my “program”.
It is through my opening of my training program to the community that I have found a learned runner to tell me that I have flaws in my program. And I thought I was doing great! Dang!!!
To cut the story short, I have to do quite a paradigm shift and undo some of the tricks I thought worked for me. And to top that, I have to bring up my mileage to tire myself out. Heck, I take a day break in-between runs to save myself from fatigue, and now this? Well, that’s all part of the deal and I have to adhere to it to be better.
So, hang on to your seats as we journey together and discover if my mentor’s plan will work. I am a willing disciple.
My plan is flawed? Okay, give me better :-)