A belated update….. after a couple of months without a post
!
Training has not been going as good as I wanted. After
finishing Osaka last November, I had one eye on doing Seoul in March. But due
to a myriad of factors, I wasn’t capable to train to a level that I aspired to.
My shin/post-tib issues are still giving me a grief. Started
chiropractic treatment in order to align the body and hip, but the pain never
entirely goes away. Every time I try to up the ante, it always comes back and
produces sequels of pain.
I also have lost my way a bit in terms of focus/motivation.
Another (newer) passion of mine is playing Fantasy Football and I consider
myself to be very good at it (ranked top 10 nationally and in top 200 globally,
won a trip to Spain two years ago from winning the game etc). Between August
and May are EPL football season and with the games being telecast late night or
early morning local time, I am struggling to get up early to run, hence cutting
short my sessions and long runs. The competition also requires lots of brain
work. If you have watched/read the movie/book called ‘Moneyball’, you will know
what I mean…
In addition, I found my body took more time to recover nowadays (life after 40 haha). On some days, I could not be bothered to get up to run and prefer to sleep in.
At the moment, I am quite happy to run as a hobby, doing about
60km per week. I am keeping an eye on doing Gold Coast Marathon in July, since
it is a few months away and hopefully, my injury will heal and passion for
running will come back by then. Football session will end in May, so it could help
to resurrect my motivation to train.
Any tips to regain passion/motivation to train hard? Maybe I
should start registering for races again lol
