This morning was a struggle, there have been many days like this in the past and I know that there will be plenty of more in the future. Basically, most things that could have gone wrong this morning did go wrong, which seems to be the way when starting a new challenge – getting forward momentum in the initial weeks is the hardest part!
The challenges started this morning when my alarm went off at 5:00am and instead of getting up I pushed snooze. Normally, this is ok and I’ll be up 10 minutes later however this morning I pushed the wrong button on my alarm which meant instead of being on snooze it just muted the alarm and it kept going silently. It pushed the start back to 5:45am instead – not ideal. The fun continued when as a consequence of that my phone which I use to map my distance and track my progress was on 1% battery…seems that I wasn’t the only one on low battery this morning! I decided to push though regardless of whether the phone went dead or not, I wasn’t going to fail in the challenge on only second day!
Once into the run, it was quite pleasant, not an overly fast pace, mirroring pretty much to the second the run from yesterday at a 5’52” pace over the 12km. I did manage to take a moment on my way back when seeing some short-billed galahs to appreciate the contrast between urbanisation and nature. I also had the realisation that if I do manage to complete the challenge I’ll be needing another pair of new shoes before the end of the year. Doing the calculations, if I manage to run comparatively to the first two days (which I can’t see why I won’t) I could be potentially running 1,080km over the course of the challenge. It will be interesting to see how close to this mark I hit, I don’t have a distance goal but it will be interesting to see where it ends up.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for energy levels, I think that really monitoring my bedtime will become an increasingly important of ensuring success in this one.
Bring on Day Three.
