Entries with tag "running"

I'm so responsible! I had planned to watch one of my NetFlix movies today before work, but I woke up around 7pm and watching a movie would have meant not having time to go running. After a brief deliberation, I went running instead of watching the movie.

This time I made it about 3/4 of a mile before I had to stop and walk. It's nice to continue seeing improvement, but I know eventually it will level off.

When I'm really out of breath after running as long as I possibly can, I open my mouth wide to allow as much air as possible to get into and out of my system. It is effective, but I'm sure it looks stupid as hell. Today when I slowed to a walk I did that, and was walking with my mouth wide open, and then suddenly realized there was an attractive girl jogging past me in the opposite direction. I quickly closed my mouth, but I had just taken a deep breath, so I tried to exhale through my nose. However, I have a cold, so the result of this was that I blew a snot bubble for her. Awesome.

When Andrés got down here last Monday, he finally convinced me to start running, and we've gone running around the neighborhood nearly every day since he arrived. There is a one-mile-long loop around my block, so for now we've just been doing one lap of that each day. I'm already noticing a difference; the first day, I ended up walking most of the way, and it took us something like 15-20 minutes to make it around the block. Yesterday, we jogged nearly all of it, stopping only twice to walk and catch our breaths, and it only took about 9 minutes. It's a challenge to overcome my aversion every day and force myself to go running, but it feels good later to know that you've done something worthwhile, and it's satisfying to see the improvement in ability. It has helped a lot to have Andrés pushing me each day when I resist, and by now I think I've got the momentum required, so it should be no problem to keep it up once he leaves on Friday. Perhaps I should wire something up so that you can give me an electric shock by clicking a button on my website, so people can punish me if I start to slack off in the future :)

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