On Running
Progress Report: I got the okay to start jogging two weeks ago. Yay!
I've been to the gym three times this week for short 30 minute work-outs. I run (more of a jog really) one minute and walk for 2 minutes and repeat, ten times.
I saw my PT again this afternoon, after two of the three runs I mentioned, and she remarked on my good progress. I have two more session with her on the insurances dime and after that I'll be cutting way back. Most likely, I just do monthly check-ins till I can finish the couch to 5K training completely this time.
Running on a treadmill has been really good for me. It forces me to run a consistent pace, which I think will do wonders to improve my endurance. When I trained previously it was outdoors around Lake Merritt. Somedays I noticed I'd gotten farther than the day before and assumed my speed was faster, but whether I was speedier the first 10 minutes or the last ten minutes I didn't know.
I've been thinking a lot about running. I recently watched this TED video on running that was really compelling in explaining why we were born to run. I've also been watching little Habitoters run up and down the halls at work. To me these kids movements when running are so fluid and natural that they are closer to professional athletic runners than any of us amateurs clogging the middle. Shoes, posture, and compensating techniques do a lot to breakdown what seems to come so naturally to these two and three year olds I see each day. Have you noticed kiddos run on their toes and do not slam their heal down first like so many of us have learned to do? It's interesting to have my PT, Laura's, voice in my head while I was watching two girls running in the hall the other day, to look at them, and think "oh that's what Laura's trying to get me to do."
I've been to the gym three times this week for short 30 minute work-outs. I run (more of a jog really) one minute and walk for 2 minutes and repeat, ten times.
I saw my PT again this afternoon, after two of the three runs I mentioned, and she remarked on my good progress. I have two more session with her on the insurances dime and after that I'll be cutting way back. Most likely, I just do monthly check-ins till I can finish the couch to 5K training completely this time.
Running on a treadmill has been really good for me. It forces me to run a consistent pace, which I think will do wonders to improve my endurance. When I trained previously it was outdoors around Lake Merritt. Somedays I noticed I'd gotten farther than the day before and assumed my speed was faster, but whether I was speedier the first 10 minutes or the last ten minutes I didn't know.
I've been thinking a lot about running. I recently watched this TED video on running that was really compelling in explaining why we were born to run. I've also been watching little Habitoters run up and down the halls at work. To me these kids movements when running are so fluid and natural that they are closer to professional athletic runners than any of us amateurs clogging the middle. Shoes, posture, and compensating techniques do a lot to breakdown what seems to come so naturally to these two and three year olds I see each day. Have you noticed kiddos run on their toes and do not slam their heal down first like so many of us have learned to do? It's interesting to have my PT, Laura's, voice in my head while I was watching two girls running in the hall the other day, to look at them, and think "oh that's what Laura's trying to get me to do."