To tell God’s honest truth
In S1E05 of Ted Lasso Ted explains to Rebecca that his therapist gave him and his wife a code word to use so if either of them says “Oklahoma” the other one has to tell the God's honest truth.
Welp - “Oklahoma” - I had plans to finish writing/posting something else entirely today but I had this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad run earlier. And to keep in the spirit of Ted Lasso I was trying my damnest to be a goldfish…but I just can’t shake off that run. It almost literally has my head on lockdown.
Progress over perfection
Fitness is so different now that I am in my 50s. There are fewer personal bests and more new norms (or bests with age group asterisks 🙂 ). And in this recovery phase from being sick I am both bolstered by, and impatient with, progress. Each good session feels like I’m finally nearing the top of the fitness hill. Each subpar session has me feeling all Sisyphus.
(Boom! Knowledge, bitches! I could have just generically said something about rolling the bolder up the mountain and the boulder rolling back blah blah blah but as Wikipedia is my witness, I dropped Greek mythology on ya’ll! 😉 )
I badly wanted today to be a reflection of the “Easy Miles” description in Training Peaks. The weather was generally perfect and my sock game was on point. And as much as I would like to blame “hot cicada summer” (noisy freaks), sometimes a bad run is just a bad run. So while my thorn of the day was my sh*tty run, my rose was that this was my longest (duration and distance) run since Jan 28th. As Jen says, progress over perfection.
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