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how's the 100 days' thing going?
May. 30th, 2003 09:27 amI think it's going well. After much grumping and groaning, foot cramps, experimentation with various footwear, getting rained on, and much being hard on myself and on Sweetie, we have reached the point where we were able to maintain a jogging pace all the way around the pond (1.45 mile) without stopping yesterday. This is considerable progress.
And yet we didn't run today. Slight problem with "running" as the 100 days' thing. It may actually not be healthy to run every day. It might be healthy for some people, people who are built for running, but not healthy for me (with weird feet and weirder knees) or Sweetie (very heavy, very weird feet). We almost scraped up the motivation to do the run this morning-- actually, we both scraped up the motivation, but our motivation didn't peak at the same time-- but I bailed because I have this nagging fear that we would hurt ourselves if we ran today after doing so much (for us) yesterday. I'm struggling with finding the happy medium between pushing myself and Sweetie enough that we get something accomplished, and yet not pushing so hard that we get hurt. I do not know what the right frequency would be for going jogging, and I suspect that this will change as we get more in shape for jogging. I do not know, if we listen to our bodies to find out what days it's ok to run, what I should pay attention to and what I should ignore as mere grousing.
I think I need some strict, artificial goal like the 100 days' meme to push me and get myself to train past the issues that have kept me from running these past 12 or 14 years. But it's counter-productive if meeting the artificial goal leads to injury. I need to find some way to re-phrase the charter of this 100 days' journey, so that keeping this commitment is synonymous with training the optimal amount.
P.S.: We didn't run but we aren't being wimpy today. Weight training at gym tonight, hee haw.
And yet we didn't run today. Slight problem with "running" as the 100 days' thing. It may actually not be healthy to run every day. It might be healthy for some people, people who are built for running, but not healthy for me (with weird feet and weirder knees) or Sweetie (very heavy, very weird feet). We almost scraped up the motivation to do the run this morning-- actually, we both scraped up the motivation, but our motivation didn't peak at the same time-- but I bailed because I have this nagging fear that we would hurt ourselves if we ran today after doing so much (for us) yesterday. I'm struggling with finding the happy medium between pushing myself and Sweetie enough that we get something accomplished, and yet not pushing so hard that we get hurt. I do not know what the right frequency would be for going jogging, and I suspect that this will change as we get more in shape for jogging. I do not know, if we listen to our bodies to find out what days it's ok to run, what I should pay attention to and what I should ignore as mere grousing.
I think I need some strict, artificial goal like the 100 days' meme to push me and get myself to train past the issues that have kept me from running these past 12 or 14 years. But it's counter-productive if meeting the artificial goal leads to injury. I need to find some way to re-phrase the charter of this 100 days' journey, so that keeping this commitment is synonymous with training the optimal amount.
P.S.: We didn't run but we aren't being wimpy today. Weight training at gym tonight, hee haw.
