Motivation vs Depression part 3/3

THE FUTURE



Goals are an essential part of life of you ask me. I mean if you dont have goals how are you going to feel like your achieving anything in life. Surely its merely an existence without goals an wheres the fun in that.

     If you could do anything and know that you could not fail, what would it be? Please......take a moment or two too think about this thing.

     Some people may dream of doing a 3 hour marathon. Others may dream of that dream job. Whatever you do just make sure you have something that makes you want to get up every morning.

     The late Steve jobs really hit the nail on the head for finding what you love. 14mins of genius here I have to say.

HURDLES

     Hurdles, barriers, walls, problems whatever we want to call them they will always always be there in some way shape or form and you may be thinking, its all well an good wanting something but what about reality basically. I understand that thought process really I do. If you dont believe you can do it by all means carry with the boring day to day grind of Monday - Friday.

     If you want more than anything to feel you have made it or been successful in your pursuits then know this..........FEAR...IS...NOT...REAL. That is right fear Is not real! It's just an illusion tricking you into not chasing your dream. Fear wants you to stay in the comfort zone. Of we are completely honest, what is REALLY stopping us? Time to shed our love of excuses don't you think. 

Motivation vs Depression part 2/3

MOTIVATED..........depressed.........MOTIVATED............depressed. I have to be honest this can be an hourly or daily cycle at times, for me atleast anyway. I know there will be those of you that would love to feel better than you do now. I know how you feel I've been there before. Trust me though, it does get better, it doesnt have to be one massive long numb existence. I've been on an upward mood very gradually now for a while. Yes there are down days now an again but overall I'm mostly happy with life.

Why? Whats changed?
My outlook on life is a different now. I mean untill fairly recently I would experience or come up against a "problem" and simply look at the negatives of the issue. Or think about the things I wouldn't have or do. Now though I think how can I make the most of it. Take this blog, there's no getting round the fact that my writing qaulity could be better, so by recording my own ideas an so on I hopefully can improve. Win win really.

Sometimes I may not be able to turn it round perhaps if its out of my control or if its just rubbish then atleast discovering the cause can make it easier because it can be rationalized. Having someone go in your pocket for cash all the time would be extremely annoying but knowing its the taxman makes it alot more acceptable given that schools an hospitals need paying for.

Lifes to short to dwell on problems. See things as opportunitys and suddenly life is much more coulorfull, interesting and fun. TRUST ME.

By the way if you enjoyed reading this. Or have any opinions, tips or advice on it then chuck us a comment.

Thanks people.

Motivation vs Depression part 1.

Ever struggle for motivation? I know I do at times. But why?

"I'm always motivated" - nobody ever.

Why do you just not want to get up and go sometimes? Even for the slightest little daily task. I'm not talking win the Tour de France or run a marathon. If you have an opinion on this please share.

Lately I've been stuck in a bit of a rut, making the wrong choices with Diet and sleep routine mainly. These two rather big issues have made me feel.........well, crap.

Depression is winning, or should I say was, because I'm turning it around. I'm not planning on winning the olympics so dont get to excited.

In the last couple of weeks i've made the decision to get my lazy arse going mostly in running because when I get running regurlarly pretty much everything else improves with it.

To be continued.......

Day 3

     Right well today I got up late at about 10am so early morning run went out the window so instead I ended with breakfast at about 11am.
Breakfast- Shredded wheat 50g + semi skimmed milk.
Lunch- 2 pork & Chilli sausages on 1 1/2 slices bread.
Dinner- Full roast dinner,
Pudding- limoncello slice (thin) + tiffin chunks x 2
Supper- cheese n crackers
Evening spent at family gathering so I was pretty relaxed with food intake. Will be much better as of the morning. No alcohol drunk though so thats good.

The run was squeezed in my day just about at 3:15pm. Was good though because I felt better again today although I was aware that the intensity was getting high but at this stage it really doesn't matter though at this stage as I'm just simply aiming to go for a 2 minute increase on the run time each time I go out.

I'm hoping this method allows me to increase the training up to 100mpw within a relatively short time period to previous levels. As the time does go up I'm sure the pace will slow though to allow for it, thats okay though.

Training
Profile: flat
Time: 36:54
Distance: 5.32mile
Pace: 6:56 min/mile
Route: out n back in holyhead itself.
comments: ran to fast on way out today because slowed down on way back taking 54 seconds longer, thats fine but just shows there is a but of room for improvement with pace judgement. Enjoyed the run and felt good anyway.

todays weight: 12st 3lb.

Okay thanks if anyone read this. 

Day 2

So the second day went better than the first I would say, not that day one wasnt good. I just felt lighter on my feet today.

For a change i did a different route to normal. Holyhead to Trearddur Bay and back. Not pan flat but definetly not hilly. Needed a route with pavements the entire way with street lighting as much as possible.

So I've been doing out and backs while I build up fitness, this gives me an idea of how I paced the run. so far they have both been quicker on way back than on way out. Last night 16 mins out then tonight 17 mins out. Going an extra minute each day.

Tonight I got to the end of the street with 32 mins on watch so added a tiny but extra on to masher the 2 mins up to get about 34:12. Enjoyed the run alot too.

4.65miles in 34:12 @7:21mm ave pace.

Thanks for reading.
Andy

New year Day.

New years resolutions.
I'm not normally one for this "new year: new me" stuff but this year I have genuinely felt the need to change things because well I dont see the point working hard in trainings runs if I'm just going to cancel it out in other ways.
Things like:

Alcohol- drinking way to much so frankly need to cut it out.

Sleep- pattern is not existent so a regular 8hours would be a big improvement with recovery time an qaulity.

Diet- was eating alot of the wrong foods so going to cut back on processed food and also cut down on the wheat. Basically going to be more mindfull of what I consume.

Fluids- less tea and coffee ect and more water.

So with all this in mind I've been very motivated on my first run of the Year knowing I'm not going to undo any benefit.

Whilst I am a long way off being 100% race fit we all have to start somewhere.

Distance: 4.36 mile
Time: 31:41
Pace: 7:16/mile
Effort: roughly what I feel I could run a marathon at the moment.
Weather: strong winds and slightly spitting.
Motivation: 10/10

Diet:
Breakfast: 50g shredded wheat + skimmed milk.
Lunch: 100g green lentils
Dinner: beef and vegetables slow cooked.

2015

Well here goes, really going to try an keep this Blog going now as we enter new year.
     Hoping to record as much as possible about my running over the year.
     To make it count I'm taking the diet more serious now to so as not to undo any of the effort. Barely ran towards the end of last year (blog post in itself) so going to build up gradually to prevent injury an all that. Plan on getting down to race weight (11stone) as well by summer if possible.