Jogging #17: Diesel And Dust
Mar. 11th, 2008 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeI was monomaniacal about a project today, so by the time it was running time, the gym was closed. Ergo, I went unto the river.
Five minutes brisk warm-up walk got me to 71st and Second; from there, I did the 8/5/8, which got me all the way up to the park that is over top the FDR when you get beyond 79th St., which is, um, er, *google*, Carl Schurz Park. Whoever he is. I went partway through the park, then across it, then up the hill (oh god oh god) on the street side of it back down to 79th. I had to break in the middle of the second 8 for a fifteen-second breather, so ran an extra 2.25 minutes in compensation.
At this point, my Session[tm] was done, but I still had a fair way to go back to campus; so I walked 5, ran 3, walked 5, ran 3, went splat, changed, realized I did not have time to have lunch before my next meeting, and scarfed a string cheese.
I really like running along the river, particularly on such a beautiful day, but it occurs to me that locomoting alongside the FDR Drive and its masses of stopped traffic belching fumes is Considered Harmful. Certainly I noticed the fumes a lot more than I have while just walking there.
I am going to do the same sequence tomorrow, rather than try the next one, which is run 20 minutes without a walking break. Srsly.
Down 1.5lbs this morning, though that could be 'cos I didn't really have dinner last night.
ObMusic: My amazing psychic MP3 player threw that at me as I finished up. Har har bloody har.
Five minutes brisk warm-up walk got me to 71st and Second; from there, I did the 8/5/8, which got me all the way up to the park that is over top the FDR when you get beyond 79th St., which is, um, er, *google*, Carl Schurz Park. Whoever he is. I went partway through the park, then across it, then up the hill (oh god oh god) on the street side of it back down to 79th. I had to break in the middle of the second 8 for a fifteen-second breather, so ran an extra 2.25 minutes in compensation.
At this point, my Session[tm] was done, but I still had a fair way to go back to campus; so I walked 5, ran 3, walked 5, ran 3, went splat, changed, realized I did not have time to have lunch before my next meeting, and scarfed a string cheese.
I really like running along the river, particularly on such a beautiful day, but it occurs to me that locomoting alongside the FDR Drive and its masses of stopped traffic belching fumes is Considered Harmful. Certainly I noticed the fumes a lot more than I have while just walking there.
I am going to do the same sequence tomorrow, rather than try the next one, which is run 20 minutes without a walking break. Srsly.
Down 1.5lbs this morning, though that could be 'cos I didn't really have dinner last night.
ObMusic: My amazing psychic MP3 player threw that at me as I finished up. Har har bloody har.
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Date: 2008-03-12 12:40 am (UTC)Also, skipping meals is bad in the long run, it starts to send your body into starvation mode. Try to eat at least something to keep the gears grinding. :)
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Date: 2008-03-12 11:25 am (UTC)I got really annoyed when my MP3 player played Iron Maiden's "Loneliness of the long distance runner." during the middle of a longer run a few years back