The "Weekly" (RUN)down
Integrity & Re-committing
Weekly, is the operative word in “The Weekly (RUN)down”.
That might suggest you should expect this email to hit your inbox WEEKLY.
Over the last 2 months, you’ve might have realized you haven’t heard from me. I promise it’s all for good reasons, and this isn’t just me showing proof of life. I’m here to re-commit to my newsletter.
Where Was I?
Most of May was spent in Vancouver, then a bachelor party in Vernon. I was still training, but I was really leaning into work as well. My life was super full and I didn’t have the bandwidth to write.
June, pretty much every weekend was spent in the mountains. My running practice grew to include mountain running, I’ve found there is an incredible sense of accomplishment after you suffer through the ascent and look back down to where you started. During the week, I was taking on a little extra responsibility at the store and felt as if I spent the time to write a newsletter, it wouldn’t be as intentional as I’d like.
Once July came around, I was transitioning jobs, running my first 10k race of the year and trying to beat the heat. Seriously, it’s hot out.
How’s Training?
So good, I have new 5k and 10k PB’s. My long runs will be at 2 hours duration or 20k by the end of July. Depending on heat..
I have had no shin pain for months! My cadence has increased and I feel strong and confident in my stride.
Next focus is heat management (currently) and in-run nutrition. Excited to continue to learn more about these topics.
Learnings From the Last +2 Months?
Balancing priorities is easy when you have a vision and goals to guide you!
Admittedly, not writing my newsletter weekly was a lapse in integrity. I own that.
De-prioritizing this task supported me in finding success in my training and all other areas of my life. So, I learnt I need to communicate better when I can’t manage all of my priorities, or when there is a shift in them. This is how I can keep integral, rather than needing to re-store my integrity after the fact.
How does one re-store integrity? I’ve always seen it as acknowledging where you didn’t meet your commitment or responsibility. Could also be a deadline, or didn’t live up to your word.
After acknowledging the issue, there’s an assesment of why things didn’t work out. Which is an important step, as it helps you understand if this is still something you can move forward with or not.
Then the last step is re-committing or de-committing.
Re-commitment
At this moment, I don’t know what I want this newsletter to look like moving forward. I love the idea of sharing my learnings. I’m interested in growing this little corner of the internet.
But it’s becoming clear, that I’ve discovered how to keep myself committed and hold myself to greater accountability without making things public.. This was the purpose in the first place..
SO, I want to have a clear picture of what you can expect from this newsletter next week. I am committed to sharing my thoughts on this evolution at that time.
For now, I’m 12 weeks out from race day and I have some work to do!