I started doing more of this recently — literally. I wear a heart rate monitor when I run, but until this week I’ve never based my runs on how hard my heart was working and I’ve been missing out. For me, it was all about how many miles I was (or wasn’t) running and wanting to run each run faster than the last. This worked out great initially, but then running became a chore and I began to dread the thought of running 3, 6, 8 miles… Just visualizing the same boring routes that I run was enough to make me think “I can run tomorrow”. I’ve run more miles this week because I stopped focusing on how many miles I was running, And they’ve been crazy good runs! I don’t even map out my runs before hand, I am free to just go run, which is kind of the point of running — freedom.
Maybe I should take this approach with blogging…
EDIT: I changed the title from “Listen to your Heart” to “Follow your Heart” because I’m wasn’t actually LISTENING to my heart, but taking my cues from it via a HR monitor. 