I recently started using my Garmin Forerunner again to track my runs after a year of leaving it in a box and using my phone instead. It is nice to be able to look at the past few years' worth of runs. I found my old training runs and marathon breakdown, and realized that I was maintaining a better pace over 18 to 20 miles than I have for many of my recent long runs and half marathons.
What happened? Shouldn't I be getting better? What was so different about my motivation compared to now? And more importantly, how can I get back to that level of commitment?
My life has been crazy with school, but I've always viewed running as a means to compete against myself. When I trained for a marathon, I was in the midst of a year sabbatical from school and only had to worry about work for the most part. I have a tendency to fall off of the wagon, but I need to dig deeper and make myself try to keep up with training. This is my constant battle, which is much harder than running and training for a marathon.
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