It's been a rough 3 weeks with the running. I've learned several things these last few weeks. For one, lack of sleep really effects my running. I switched my schedule from working nights to days for a 4 day weekend and went to Minnesota and tried to keep running but felt just awful. Then I came back and switched back to nights so I had a double dose of exhaustion there. then after working 5 nights I had to switch back to days and started a 13 day stretch of 12-14 hour shifts.
Each day that I ran after already walking about 10-13 miles at work I felt worse and worse until I finally ran a 2 miler that just killed me and I walked all the way back home. Two days ago after resting for 4 days I could barely run a mile but forced myself to go 4 so felt good about the effort. Today I had off from work and just went out for a relaxed run with no real plans for distance and it was great. Ran 7+ miles, the farthest to date and really felt good when I finished.
Just have to take the good with the bad sometimes and it may seem to be taking longer than I planned to build up my endurance but hey, could barely run a 1/4 mile that first day 4 months ago - perspective eh!
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- David Lawton
- 46 year old has been trying to reclaim my running interests after a 25 year break.
1 comments:
Hi Dave.
Just found your blog site and enjoy reading it. I can appreciate the struggles of running after all walking all day long at work. I used to work a great deal on my feet, and some of my best runs happened after work. But I was 20 something then. Yes, I'm being tested these days growing not young. Seems like you get a lot from your running, and that's what many of us enjoy. It's fun watching runners progress. Good luck getting your mileage and training where you want it. I post with another running friend, Amy. We’re just ordinary runners discuss everything about running, just fun stuff. We’ll look forward to reading more of your site and following your progress. Keep up the good running and posting! Tom
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