It Make A Difference When You Do It Right.
Sorry I haven’t been better about blogging. I have been slammed with work lately, so I haven’t had any brain left with which to blog.
Things are going great! I ran 2.25 miles non-stop on Friday with my 18 year old son. I had to tell him in advance not to talk to me during the run, because while he can run 8 miles chatting the whole way with his buddies, I am usually running out of breath on my second mile. He was kind enough to go as slow as me, and eventually he god bored and ran ahead and went home. So he ended up running just under 2 miles while I continued on to 2.25 miles in 26 minutes. I used this to my advantage when I came in, pointing out that I was a "grown-up" so it was unfair of me to expect my child to run as far as I can. It was worth it just for the look I got, a side ways look with a little bit of a grin, like for a minute there he thought I was serious.
Yesterday afternoon I stepped it up to 2.5 miles non-stop. My iMapMyRun app on my iPhone closed up and stopped tracking at .5 miles, so I just kept running past the point at which I thought would be 2.5 miles. I am pretty sure that I ran at least a tenth of a mile over. I just did not want to go home thinking that I might not have made it the whole distance. I have to tell you that I am psyched! This time last year, I was letting myself walk in the middle of my 2.5 mile run. That is just not an option this time.
I think one of the reasons for things going better this time, is that I am paying attention to my running form. I am keeping my body straight, my eyes straight ahead, taking smaller strides, swinging arms forward to back -not across, and relaxing my upper body. Wow. It make a difference when you do it right. Doing 2.5 miles Wednesday and Friday and then it’s 3 miles next week. After that, I will start measuring my runs in kilometers, and I will run 5k 3 days a week until November 7.
I am also REALLY looking forward to my next cardiologist visit, which is October 13. I know that this running has got to be helping my heart recover from decades of inefficiency previous to my valve replacement 2 and a half years ago.
Got up this morning and got to the gym. What a great workout! I feel really good!
August 18, 2009 at 11:45 am
Yay Steve. Getting the runs up & hitting the AM workouts. Congrats.
Running 5K, 3x per week, til November……..That’s torture in my book. Torquemada is still going at it…….