For Your Health?

[rowyn]

The car pulled up alongside me, not quite stopping. "Are you jogging for your health?" The driver sounded somewhere between incredulous and disbelieving.
"In theory," I panted in reply. I had about 25 seconds left to travel 8 hundredths of a mile.  It didn't seem impossible.  Unlikely, maybe.
"Do you need a ride?" she asked.

"No, I'm fine." I

Comments

[alltoseek]

Ah, you were running in work clothes! Still, not very inspiring, to have someone ask :-)

Good luck on your quest - the bike riding bit is easy - 20 leisurely minutes anywhere you like to go :D

Doesn't bode well for me that you couldn't make that mile under 12 minutes - that was one of the next I was going to try!

[rowyn]

I was so close!

I think you are in better overall condition than I am though, even if I have somewhat more practice jogging. If this heat would break for a while, I might be able to work up to that 12-minute mile. Running 91 degree heat is not awesome. Bike riding in 91 degree heat is fine, though. :)

... although I should point out that this was jogging home from work, which means I am jogging down the annoying hill instead of up it.

And this does confirm my suspicion that Cardio Trainer was on crack when it thought I'd done 3.9 miles in 47 minutes. :)

[alltoseek]

Running in 91 degrees is pretty tedious all right.

My weight and by bad hips and bad knees make any kind of running very challenging. Even as far as from home to first base :-)

My fastest walking pace is about 4 miles an hour, so 3.9 miles in 47 minutes of jogging isn't unreasonable.

[rowyn]

I know it sounds reasonable -- for many joggers, it'd be normal. But my sustained job is _very slow_. Even "as fast as I can" for a mile is only 4.8 mph, and 3.9 miles in 47 minutes is 4.9 mph.

I could probably walk faster than I jog, but jogging (apart from knee problems) is better exercise, and while I don't have a hard time remembering "keep jogging", I do have a hard time remembering "keep walking fast". Whenever I'm walking, I pretty much always slow down to 3mph unless someone is there to pace me.

[terrycloth]

Is jogging for your health unusual now? o.O I see people doing it all the time. Maybe you weren't in uniform?

[rowyn]

My "business casual" is pretty darn casual, but yeah, it's not sweatpants and a t-shirt, so that might have been it. Or it might have been my labored huffing and puffing. :)

[ladyperegrine]

Maybe she was afraid you were being chased and needed help? That is a really weird question, though. :-)