Re: Post your daily exercise routine
While the evenings are still warm, the sportsplex lights shine for community softball and soccer teams, make a rare evening run possible. With few insects and fewer vehicles, I decided to remain true to the long shadows and longer evening with a respectable (for me) seven miles. Alternating between patches of light and darkness, I had to depend more on the feel of the road and sounds around me as they became more acute. In a matter of minutes, my breathing and feet striking pavement had me considering two performance factors to which I rarely attend - a lighter strike and breath control. Oh yes, I paid dearly for my lack of focus over the last months and in six miles I was huffing, puffing, and laboring terribly, but undeterred, I found my second wind and managed that last mile with a sense of minor victory. I finished the run, ran into no trees, fell into no holes, and was unscathed by mosquitos and night drivers. Yesss...Re: Post your daily exercise routine
Today was all a rush to join friends to watch American football. While I am not a diehard fan, it does make for an enjoyable afternoon, though I dread all the seductive snacks and treats. With that in mind, my daughter and I ran a soild preemptive five miles, made cool by the anvil's overhang from a faraway thunderstorm.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
I seem to have been overcome with a sore throat, so I set off on my usual eight mile run yesterday morning with the intention of cutting it down to a six if needs be. The first couple of miles were certainly a struggle with no energy and still some stiffness left in my legs from last weeks encounter with Mount Snowdon.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
Sorry to hear that you brought home an irritating sore throat from your trip. Perhaps you should have considered bringing home the sort of souvenirs that Mrs. OGF found in the shops Landudno shops instead .Re: Post your daily exercise routine
Thanks for your concern Surfermom....Re: Post your daily exercise routine
It was a noble effort to get out there in the first place, OGF considering that you went into it with some miserable viral symptoms. I have pushed through colds before and although exercise might speed up healing - it's more likely that exercise simply distracts from the irritants of a cold.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
With great trepidation I jogged off sheepishly early this morning. It was only just light and last nights heavy (and I mean heavy!) rain had passed over and left a warm moist sticky feel to the morning air. It's not very often that I don't look forward to a run, but I was hoping that it wouldn't be a repeat of Tuesday's disappointment when my energy deserted me and I had to cut it short.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
I am proud of you efforts, OGF. When I had meniscus surgery five years ago, after a very amusing and un-cooridnated fall, I was so trepidacious about running again that I rode my bicycle ten miles deep into a trail to test my "new" knee. I went where no one would see me, fully aware that it was a now-or-never moment - I would try to run. I set the lofty goal of a tenth of a mile, and it would forever determine my futurre. If I couldn't run, I would accept it and find a new sport - cycling, walking, whatever.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
You are a strong willed woman Surfermom and I had to smile when reading your comments, how different our upbringings have been, separated by gender, distance, and culture yet we are the same in so many things.Re: Post your daily exercise routine
That's a great story, and it is particularly meaningful on this forum. When do we test our limits and when do we not? I'm sure your confidence soared after that run-to-failure outing.Thread Tools | |
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