At least until I get my injury taken care of. I am not a fan of the taking it easy, doing a workout that knocks me out and then taking it easy again. I am a fan of running and enjoying it. This is something that has not been happening since the road mile on new years. I have been having pain in my lower abs in addition to the on and off groin pain I have dealt with for almost two years now. I think it would just be exhausted mentally if I tried to keep at running hard and racing on top of trying to keep an injury under control. I would much rather just be young and enjoy myself through different means. I am in no way retiring from racing for good. I know there are some people who try and take little breaks and end up never getting that competitive spirit back. I can say I am the type of person who is going to be in his 60s hammering out runs. It is something that I cant shake, but I can fortunately temporarily shut it down. I will still be running in more social situations(group runs) and if the weather is really nice. There are no real plans for the next couple months other than to take of my injury first and put competition in the back of my mind. If I have any good running stories, I will make sure to post them, but the blog will probably be fairly dead until I get back after it. In the mean time, I am working on a more random blog that will be launched shortly.
Thanks for reading,
Allen
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2 comments:
It's not the best time of year to run anyway. The smells and sounds of spring, when it dawns in about 6 weeks will rejuvenate you.
Back 2 years ago, I would only run 1-2x a week in the winter. The rest of the time I could be found smoking cigars, balancing beer cans on my belly and cursing at stuffed animals in my closet who I could have sworn were plotting against me...Come spring I would start to run again (40 miles/week) then peak at 60 in the summer. I would be able to race decently under this plan, but not great. Anyways, what I am trying to say is take the time to get healthy. When daylight savings hits you'll attack the roads with new vigor.
Even Jordan took some time to sort things out before he came back with gun blazing (I'm talking about comeback #1, not #2 with the Wizards).
When you're ready to come back, you'll likely be tougher than ever, or at the very least enjoy running more.
There's no worry about letting the competitive fires take a rest for a while to let yourself relax and recover.
Think about college: if you decided to redshirt your outdoor track season, which plenty of people do, then that means you're not racing from February until September. That seems like quite a while for a voluntary absence, but it happens all of the time.
That being said, even if you don't run a competitive step again, there's still great deal of running to enjoy intrinsically. And even if you don't want to run another step again, period, I don't think anyone would think less of you for it. Like you said, there's a lot of life to live--running's just one way of doing it.
Anyway, see you out there. Rest easy!
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