Me me me and my running dilemma

Dilemmas dilemmas and more dilemmas. I don't know whether this is an excuse or or whether listing to my heart. Why; it is monday and it is a running day and i cannot get my self out of the door. The excuse section of the mind; brings in the coldness, it is 17 Celsius out there. Many countries it is summer weather. It is dark. There is still sun light. Pain in the legs. After heavy weekend of training on the hilly track, yep the legs are bit sore. I have done enough exercises for today. May be. I was on the bike for nearly three hours. 1 1/2 in the morning and another same on the evening and that is thanks to my mini le Tour de France to work, from Carlton North - Melbourne to East Moorabin. Not the Princess park again, It is that awesome princess park is up the road from where i live and i like running there a lot. Sometimes too much of too good is bad.... So what other excuses can i find.......

One side of the brain says just go for it. The other side, stay put for today and train the next there days hard. The sun comes out tomorrow...... Ok there is a mood for everything. If you are not on the mood dont do it. Have to do something that i enjoy, like doing what make me happy. Running sure do make me happy and i enjoy it a lot. But sometimes the enthusiasm is not there. Today if i didn't do that bike ride, i know to be sure, to be sure i would have been out there and running away like a bird now. I cannot blame the bike ride as an excuse. Sure it is good training. Cycling i reckon is one of the best cross training for running. It works really good on all parts of the legs plus the impact on the joints are minimal. Weeeeeelll with running all those pounding on the concrete sure has it's effects. But same time it increases the muscle strength. Strength leads to less impact of the joints as muscles do a load balancing.

So; i think today have to give it a miss for running, but not going to be a couch potato. But shall do a cardio and a weight training session at my dodgy home gym. Personally i dont think there is any other sport that has the same constant intensity to the heart as running. It is that it is constant hard work on the legs for a long period of time. Going hard at it is a plus, the distance make it pure endurance work out. But with running, there are speed workouts, tempo runs there are slow runs, there are technical runs, there are run for your life sessions.... So take cross training as add value to running and get on with it.

Have a great day