Long Runs sometimes are just - long

Well, who knows what could happen next?? In an attempt to get myself more organized and prioritized correctly, I completely flipped my day around. I was finding myself getting way to "social media-ized" and paying way to much attention to my klout score. And I felt that I wasn't getting enough important structural and foundational work done for Teens Run Yonkers.

So, I decided to categorize everything I needed to do into 1) long term work i.e. activities like program plans that help create the foundation for a much stronger and better program, identifying proper donor systems 2)medium term work - activities that will drive our work for the next year to two years i.e. identifying multi-year funders and 3) shorter term - this tends to be the fun stuff such as email follow up, this blog, tweeting, finding meet up partners. And to really challenge myself, I hit the long term stuff first in the day. Since I started my day late (I decided to squeeze in my long run - more about that in a second) I am writing my blog at 6:00 PM even though I had been writing it at 8:00 or 9:00 - so we'll see if the audience is way, way bigger. Hmmmm

Anyway, my long run. Terrible and not fun. Unfortunately that's the way some of them are. Given that it was pouring rain outside, I decided to do it on the treadmill. I used to sort of beat myself up (mentally) if I did that feeling like I was taking the easy way out by running in my (semi) dry basement. Here's the thing - I like running in the rain -for maybe five to seven miles. That's a fun challenge. My marathon training schedule had me down for 14.

You want to try something challenging? Try running on a treadmill at an easy pace for 14 miles. It's not your legs that will wear down - it's your brain from the boredom. I usually try to keep it interesting by popping on a movie and I did so this time too but somehow it was just such a drag. With all the upcoming focus on Alfred Hitchcok - two movies "The Girl" and "Hitchcock" are due out in the next few months, I decided to watch one I hadn't fully watched before. I chose "Marnie" with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery - it's OK but really kind of long. Anyway, what a long 14 miles that was....

The system does seem to be working though and I felt like I had a pretty productive day -so can't ask for a lot more than that.

Well, reading through this, it's one of my less cheery blogs...Sorry about that. If you read all the way down to here, I'll just say have an awesome weekend and I'll make it up to you Monday - have fun!!!