It always feels a bit it like this.
The first race of the new season and, as usual, I really don't feel like running it, let alone racing it. I don't know why this is. I've spent the last 6 months averaging 10-12 hours running a week, ostensibly with the idea of training for racing in mind. Yet now, on the day before the race, I have lost all enthusiasm.
I'm not sure quite why this is, but for some reason every race here feels a bit like this. Most of the time I start and the feeling goes away and after a few kilometers I find that I am enjoying myself. But will it always be like this? Is it not so much the racing but these races? I'm starting to suspect that it is, or part of it at least. There is a definite wiff starting to develop around some of these events, and it smells a lot like profiteering. I guess we are in Hong Kong so maybe I shouldn't be surprised but the Scottish hill racing scene this is not.
Then there is the terrain, the geography. Sure, you have to make the best of what you have but this summer really has got me thinking seriously about the point of this. My passion for running and the mountains is growing stronger and stronger, but I am just not sure I have much interest in anything with steps and concrete anymore.
Let's see how it goes.
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