Not Fooling Around

In past years I've attempted to pull an "April Fools" joke, but rest easy, that is not the case this year.  While it is fun to fool people momentarily, you cannot fool yourself.  So, the message in this post is that while TRY uses positive peer pressure to encourage you to push yourself to grow as a runner, you only have yourself to answer to.  If you ever feel that TRY is asking to much of you, please reign it in and follow your heart and the rest of your body.

Due to the late arrival of spring this year, most regulars are behind schedule, and based on feedback from the group, we will be delaying our suggestion of interval workouts for a few weeks.  For those of you who are ready for them, feel free to leave the group in the dust.  But for most of us, we will continue to ease ourselves into the running season with some steady paced runs.

If you are just getting  back out running because of good weather finally arriving, give yourself 2-3 judgment free weeks.  Go easy on your distance and your pacing and don't expect more from yourself than your legs and body are ready to give.  Most importantly, do not beat yourself up for being behind.  You have a full running season ahead of you, there is plenty of time to be hard on yourself later.

I have some interesting things in the work (hopefully) for the next couple of weeks.  For this week, remember that opening day for the Syracuse Chiefs is Thursday at 2.  The weather forecast is promising, so if you can get out of work or have the day off and want to come out, let me know as I should be attending.

Lastly, TRY changes with the times and there are a lot of mothers on the fringe of the group.  So, think about parents with young children that may be interested in coming out and running (or walking?) with some like minded individuals. I think TRY is ready to have a sub-group of women with babies or toddlers in strollers.  I could use some help with the name though.  At this point, I've come up with:
Mothers In Line For Fitness (MILFFs)
or
Baby Recreational Exercising And Strolling Toddlers (BREASTs)

Can we do better?