A BIG reboot.
After my last race(s) during Maritime Race Weekend, I took a break.
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| There I am! 2nd from the left during the Sunrise 5k 🙂 |
I needed this break. Needed to take a step back.
There has been a lot going on in “the background”. TeenThing finally has a job (yay!). As I sit here writing this post, she is at her first shift (training). I am just over a full month and a half on low dose hormone for perimenopausal joy. (This is something my doctor and I discussed when I was in to see her for my shingles.) There was some residual fatigue from shingles as well. Work has been busy (which is good, because my brain needs that for survival, hahahaha).
Things are better since I have seen my doc, especially for the perimenopausal joy. I am not as absent-minded or moody AF (Which, astonishingly, I knew wasn’t my mental illness. This is a whole other beast. A weird, WTF kind of beast.) Can’t get rid of those hot flashes though, lol. Took some time for me. Got some new hair (actually this colour is extremely close to my “before gray” hair).
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| Who IS that mama?? |
I also needed to step back because I was losing my running mojo. I had two great races but I wasn’t getting that “HELLZ YEAH” feeling on my runs. I also wasn’t feeling GOOD. I felt off. I needed to find my mojo again. My love of feeling the burn 😉
I found it today. Fighting a head cold, on the couch, I found it.
I watched From Fat to Finish Line on Netflix. Remembering the way I felt during my last two races: the people, the atmosphere and the support of everyone who runs. How much of an accepting family runners are.
With this new month I am doing a reboot. I need to really, because I run a 5km race later this month, lol.
So, nice and easy goes the train. I signed up for the “new” Bad Yogi 30 day challenge, will head back to the gym on a regular schedule, and start kicking those kms in the butt. Also, I bought Run Fast Eat Slow to get my cooking mojo back!
[For anyone who needs to have someone kick their butt to get their mojo back, check out Carey (A PT and Coach) with Running Moms. She has great programs and is a fantastic motivator. I was kicking ass before I got sick and hormonally screwed, lol. I am also pretty sure that was how I made it through my two races with great times!]
What do you do when you lose your mojo? Take a break? Work harder?
What works for you?
Screaming Into the Void 