Halfmarathon awakening, unwanted break and change for the better.
“Is’nt it ironic” – In my last post I described boldly how to stride along to survive as a skiinstructor in the summer and then it hit me back:
Then; being grateful, belief and focus is the keys.
As mentioned before I find some principles and values durable:
Focus, prioritization, rehearse (repetition), endurance, patience of time, and an open mind to explore/learn.
It’s solely your life where you are the one that can control it, and this is a fresh story as an example:
Problems with implications: An Unwanted break
What happened to me this spring/summer was: unemployment.
I’ve search for several jobs from the spring with the same method I spent the last years and it did not work!
I’ve search for simple B2C in sales, waiter of different restaurants and cafè, and as guide at Norwegian summer travel destinations. The closest I’ve got was a interwiew in June as a swimming instructor.
I was maybe too fast to get the job (!) getting access to the organization’s dashboard as an employee, which gave me a clear cooperate illusion of that I was secured a job!
This was in start of June. “Yeah!” I was really happy and went to buy equipment required for the position.
June went by and I’ve started to not feel secure, and I tried to get in touch with the company.
This felt like a boring story on repeat. After several attempts being sent around three people of the company I succeeded to hear that there was no work to offer me neither in June, July and that they maybe would contact me in August.
With the reminder of that the world seems to be at a deep and long breakdown both physically and economically – I do not take anything for granted anymore, keep calm and move on.
The point of turn – A halfmarathon
After the quite frustrating spring of jobseeking and the summer period without anything going as planned; I travelled to the other side of Norway; Smøla and ran a halfmarathon on tight budget.
This halfmarathon – this run (“Norges vakreste”) and this experience was a true awakening.
The time before this halfmarathon I was more confused, frustrated and did my training and everything kinda halfway. I even started to plan to build another small company with the same approach as for 10 years ago. No!
The world has rapidly changed and coming back from this halfmarathon trip made me really realise this at new perspectives.
As before I find some principles and values durable:
Focus, prioritization, rehearse (repetition), endurance, patience of time, and an open mind to explore/learn.
It’s solely your life where you are the one that can control it.
I’ve increased the amounts of training in solely my own interests.
For several years building up foundation for running, but also halfway training – focusing on career and being dependent on medication for a chronic illness … it really did not get any strong results.
2023 Oktober logging: 45,9km running per month which is 1,5 k daily compared to this year:
2024 September logging at 17th of september: 49,8 km and it is 13 more days left of the month.
My favorite distance is the 10K and my time have been about 55 minutes for many years without improving the endtime at all.
After the “halfmarathon awakening shock” I’ve focused my running with a more serious approach: I signed up for the local sportsclub for strength training and interval running and I’ve increased time I’ve train individually from 2 to 3 times a week in additional to this.
I started doing yoga in 15 minutes consistently every morning before nine o’ clock.
I’m trying “new things” as learning to skateboard/longboard once a week while waiting for the winter.
Results after 2 months:
At training: I passed my beloved 10K at the 50minutes on a relatively relaxed training of jogging towards a longer distance.
This may not seem like a huge event at all. But to me it’s a sensation according to several years of running already and many streetruns.
Medals are a really neat prizes and beating my own time/tempo limitations are awesomely more of a feeling of a true “stoke”!
These last 2 months have been literally amazing:
- Better 10K time and tempo speed than ever before.
- Managing to stop, brake and turn on a longboard.
- Managing to “break the code” mentally by sloping over some of the ski/snowboarding obstacles in the Park more effortless than struggling with those ones before.
- Figuring out that Yoga practice really is an easy, functional and simple way to wake up the whole physical system, increase mobility and endurance thorough the day.
- Applying for 3 different positions as a ski instructor and being invited for 3 interwiews.
- Swimming 1600 meters at one go in a lake.
- Running a 10K training with Therese Johaug – being a few meters from the Norwegian champion greatness in over 30 minutes!
Being grateful, believe in yourself and focus is key factors to this world which has rapidly changed into chaos over time the last years.
As mentioned before I find some principles and values durable and those are:
Focus, prioritization, rehearse (repetition), endurance, patience of time, and an open mind to explore/learn.
It’s solely your life where you are the one that can control what you believe in.
I wish all the readers that made it to here; the best of luck for the winter!