Woke up to rain...

BIKE 30 miles in 1:42, 2x30 mins 75%
RUN 6 miles in :54 (ave 9m/m) in the afternoon
COMMUTE 6 miles

Woke up to thunderstorms and heavy rain :)
While getting water for the coffee, I saw the moon appear from behind the clouds. It's nearly full, and had a beautiful silver glow :)
It was a warm fall day by the afternoon run, didn't need a t-shirt :)

So many things to appreciate, and I'm focusing on them.

The bike was indoors, I set the goal of 18 mph for each interval and hit 9.25 and 9.1-ish in the two intervals. I was going to run right afterwards, but the arrival of landscapers, a lack of energy, and some Blerchy feelings about running in the 'cold' 55-60F weather got me to reschedule the run for the afternoon.

I'm low on energy, sorta unfocused, worried that my weight is getting too low, wondering if the lack of recovery in this taper period is going to be a problem, wondering why I'm not recovering, wondering about dialing back the hours, eating enough, etc etc etc

So I'm focusing on that too.

Moving the run to the afternoon worked out good, but a few issues. I didn't eat lunch until afterwards (3:30!). I didn't drink too much beforehand so I didn't have slosh-gut, but since I didn't have a solid time to run this just drug out to me not drinking much at all during the morning. And I was anxious about getting the run done, so I never really settled into anything at work. On bonus though was that I was a little more forceful about getting things done so I could just get running!

But once running my mind started up too. I fought the urge to look at the garmin (seeing 1.19 miles when I thought it should say 2 was crushing...), I kept winding my adrenaline and stomach up thinking about things, and I just wanted to be done.

At the same time, I was running a good pace (much better than it felt!), I reminded myself that I could do this all day long if needed, and that outbound headwind-turned inbound tailwind felt awesome.

I focused on riding the wind in.

Felt sooooo much better afterwards! But I know it can be fleeting.