Perito Moreno Glacier Trek: Worth the Cost
Finally, we were on the ice, and thankfully the weather had cleared for us. At the start the ice is all a bit murky and covered in dirt as it merges with the forest, but after a short climb it became the pristine white ice you would imagine. Over the 90 minutes on the ice, we were taken over cravasses, allowed to try out the guides ice axes, shown deep holes in the ice that gave off the majestical blue colour I truly cannot describe, and told lots of information about how it forms and the importance of glaciers for our planet.
Do What You Can, With Where You Are At.
My accountability list of all the future posts I have started writing to do with my South American travels:.
The 'Adjustment Period' of Running.
The way I see it, running is like the opposite of a relationship. When you start out with a new partner, you enter the honeymoon period filled with love and excitement and immediately get rose coloured glasses firmly planted over your eyes. It seems like everything is blissfully perfect, until somewhere along the path cracks start to show. With running on the other hand, there's no way around the fact that in many ways the start sucks. Not only is breathing scarily difficult, sweat more abundant, and heart rates sky high; but you get to become reacquainted with the pain of muscles microtearing and fixing themselves on a daily basis. For me, this has meant waking up being unable to walk without the pressure and pain in my calves forcing me into a robot shuffle for the first 5 minutes of the day. Navigating stairs has once again become a mission of sweet talking my quads and hamstrings into moving as they are designed to, and I am drop-dead tired most nights.
Motivation vs Determination
The reason I made this distinction is that I realised motivation is a fickle thing. We applaud people for being motivated, saying they are go-getters and high achievers because they have high levels of 'motivation'. But over a year, month, week, day, or even a single workout, motivation waxes and wanes. If we always relied on motivation to get things done, what happens when you don't sleep well, feel a little sick, an easier offer pops up, and motivation for something that is usually high has bottomed out? This is where if the task is high priority, determination steps in.