The Bumblebee

The quote of the day is "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it flies anyway."

Love it and it really struck a cord with me. We are the bumblebee's. When our brains are shut off and not telling us what we can and can't do, we are pretty impressive people, able to accomplish a ton. I have had non-bumblebee moments, and a lot of them lately. Actually, pretty much my entire running career (that exists for all of 9 months). My non-bumblee moments are those times when looking back, you probably could have kept going but your brain psyched you out into believing you HAD to stop, for whatever reason. If my goal is 6 miles, I would stop at 5 or 5.5, if my goal was 3, I felt like I was spent at 2 miles. I feel like over the past few months, I psych myself out. The knowledge that you are more than 1/2 to your daily goal mileage is amazing and then when you see the end in sight, your brain shuts down and puts you into survival mode, as if you can't physically move one more foot or you're going to fall over. I proved my brain wrong this morning. I was supposed to run 6 miles at a 14:15 mpm pace. I knew the treadmill would shut off after an hour so I was going to stop and reset after 3 miles. I got to 3 and felt great, had the extra time on the treadmill so I ran on for another mile. I stopped after 4 miles, reset and started again immediately, knowing I only had 2 miles to go. I ran the next 1.5, walked to catch my breath for a 1/10 of a mile and then finished my 6 total. The last .5 miles, I got to thinking, I wonder if I can keep going....can I? I know I can finish my 6 so anything extra is a bonus and I can realistically stop whenever I want. Now, the 7th mile was tough. I ended up walking .2 of it...but I did run the other .8 and was pretty darn proud of myself for doing an extra mile AND channeling my inner bumblebee to do more than what was expected of my today.

Diet has been really good as well. I had a bowl of Special K cereal and a banana for breakfast and after my run had a Special protein water. Lunch was a Lean Cuisine meal and then for an afternoon snack I had fat-free yogurt with a couple Tbsp. of homemade granola. Pretty good and still feeling pretty satisfied at 4:30pm. Dinner is going to be another frozen meal because I have to take Connor to the doctor in a few minutes and I know we won't be home in time for me to make anything. It may be a resort to a drive-through...we'll see.