Jogging #6: Everybody Gotta Run Sometime

[serinde]

It's 9 degrees F. out there right now. I've been inside ~15 minutes and I am only just recovering sensation in my ass.

I weathered the Three Minute Run tolerably well. It helped that I went very slowly. Speedy Gonzales I am not, and possibly may never be. I note that if I have to concentrate on pacing myself, it makes it even harder to ensure my right foot's landing on the heel instead of the ball. I'm not sure how much I should worry about that at this juncture. Anyone?

This week's workout is only 18 minutes, as opposed to the previous weeks' 20. And although I feel like Death as soon as I finish a three-minute-run section, I am recovered at the end of the corresponding walk that I could probably do at least one more cycle iteration. (That's just how my stamina rolls, yo.) (That is the sound of elibalin telling me never to try and speak that dialect again.) However there is both the time factor and the Don't Overdo It factor, so I probably will refrain Wednesday.

I took my MP3 player along today, with my normal headphones. This worked well...probably because I don't move fast enough to cause the headphones to slide off.

I should have time to do morning pages right after I get in but I never feel like my head is in the right place. Now, after 15-20 min. of dorking on Teh Intarwubs, I feel like I could. Not sure what that is all about.

Up two pounds, probably due to Saturday's bacchanalia. Damn you, top-notch wurst from the Swiss Pork Store.

Comments

running- I suggest form first

[cobrawoman.livejournal.com]

I's suggest that you concentrate on landing properly and let the pacing handle itself until the form becomes a matter of habit. Once that becomes sufficiently second nature that you don't have to pay a whole lot of attention
to it, you can focus on the pacing.