October showers bring... obesity?
October 5, 2009
Sportsbra. Shirt. Shorts. Shoes. Found my keys. Get ouf of the way, cat. Down the steps. Out the door.
Raaaaaaiiin.
I love October but the on-and-off rain showers make setting a running schedule difficult. I don't mind getting wet when it's warm enough but dodging pneumonia in the freezing cold isn't really getting my blood moving. Or my legs.
It's really amazing how a quick run can make me feel so much better about the day. I'd totally gotten out of the habit over the summer (I'm a fair-weather runner) but I ran recently and wasn't as out of shape as I thought I might be after a couple months of when the closest thing I came to running was glaring at joggers from the car window. I'm going to start up again if only to have a chance every morning to clear my head a bit.
If you're interested in starting up a running plan I really recommend the Couch to 5k program from Cool Running. It claims that you will be running 5k (3 miles) in just 2 months and while it took me a bit longer than that, the program really does work. The program starts off slowly but I really started noticing improvement within just a couple of days. Suddenly, I was running farther than I ever had before.
For me, it was hard to figure out if I'd been running a full 2 minutes or 30 seconds, so I used the Podrunner: Intervals. They are beat tracks you can download and put on your ipod. The music is fast-paced plus you hear one chime when you should switch from walking to running and a different chime when you should go back to walking. They were very, very helpful.
I'm going to start the program again myself, maybe pick up somewhere in the middle. There is noooooo way I can run a straight 3 miles at the moment.
I know this probably didn't interest anyone but myself but it's what I'm thinking about at the moment! You have to start somewhere, right?
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Dude, thanks.
*goes off to download/read all that stuff*
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