Discussion | What Have You Done to Become a Better Runner During the Pandemic?
Welcome to another Thursday discussion!
This week’s discussion comes from the newsletter last week about bettering yourself with no races or gyms.
What have you done differently with your training during the pandemic?
If this is your season of rest and recovery, that’s cool too!
On a separate note, over on Half Marathons, I wrote a short piece about goal setting. This year, I’ve reframed my mind about setting goals. I’m focusing more on the process versus the end.
In the past year, I've doubled down on stoicism — it emphasizes being mindful, acknowledging that not all things are in our control, but that we have some agency in how we respond. It's a useful mantra for runners, either when we're competing in the race we trained for, or (in my current case) building back up fitness & passion.
Morning! I was doing great in November and December, but my running has been on hold since early January, when I and the whole family came down with Covid. (We're all okay, thankfully we had very mild cases.) I'm actually a little nervous about getting back to running -- though I really want to -- b/c of all those cases we all heard about college football players developing myocarditis when they went back to working out with their teams. My desire is still there to get back out and run, though!