Photos from a holiday weekend well spent. Only sour notes: it was over too soon and my flight was delayed last night.
Home for the Holiday
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In Transit
Right now, I am doing one of my favorite things: traveling home to see my parents for a few days. I am in transit at the Charlotte airport, one of my favorites because they have lots of rocking chairs. As an added bonus there is a piano man this time (maybe they thought we needed some extra entertainment with the frenzy of the holiday). Maybe other airports are this nice too, but I have not spent nearly as much time at them as I have CLT.
Physical Inertia
In my previous post, I wrote about inertia of the mental variety. This time I would like to focus on the physical inertia that likewise plagued me:
Starting a few weeks ago, my runs left me with a lethargy that lingered into the next morning and even the next run. Feeling sluggish while running and after was frustrating. The discouragement I felt pushed me so far as to consider quitting, at least until the fall, but knowing this would wreck my base, I have yet to take more than three consecutive days off. Instead, I have adopted some new strategies, and I am happy to share them with you now:
Carly’s tips for happy, if not fast, summer running: