Thursday, June 08, 2006
Jogging
Today was quite the "red letter day" for me. I started jogging early in the morning before work on Tuesday and Thursdays a few months back; this is in addition to my Sunday jog and my near-death-experience workout on Fridays. For those of you who know me well, you know that my getting out of bed by 6:30 a.m. is nothing short of a miracle!
Anyway, it has been frustrating jogging around that track lately; I've only been able to occasionally jog three to three-and-a-half laps before needing a rest walk, sometimes only two laps on a bad day. I do a total of six laps (1.5 miles; 2.4 km I understand - correction: according to Google Earth the track is much longer than usual, so it's more like 3.6 km), but that's usually with jogging, walking and a bit of running if I can muster it. Today I started slow and in fact it wasn't even my best time... but I did six laps without stopping! I even felt like I could keep going for a while longer, but didn't want to be late for work so didn't continue. To say that I was in an annoyingly good mood today is using understatement.
What's next, you may or may not ask? I'm going to add two laps on Sundays because it takes me 25-30 minutes to do the track now and it's time to make that a bit longer. That being said, I'm decidedly not looking forward to Sunday now. Let the gasping for breath begin!
Anyway, it has been frustrating jogging around that track lately; I've only been able to occasionally jog three to three-and-a-half laps before needing a rest walk, sometimes only two laps on a bad day. I do a total of six laps (1.5 miles; 2.4 km I understand - correction: according to Google Earth the track is much longer than usual, so it's more like 3.6 km), but that's usually with jogging, walking and a bit of running if I can muster it. Today I started slow and in fact it wasn't even my best time... but I did six laps without stopping! I even felt like I could keep going for a while longer, but didn't want to be late for work so didn't continue. To say that I was in an annoyingly good mood today is using understatement.
What's next, you may or may not ask? I'm going to add two laps on Sundays because it takes me 25-30 minutes to do the track now and it's time to make that a bit longer. That being said, I'm decidedly not looking forward to Sunday now. Let the gasping for breath begin!
