aceofkittens

So, those of you who have known me for a while probably know that I'm not much of a runner. I tried going running with cheesehead1701 and with mookie_bear and it wasn't fun. It just doesn't come naturally to me, that whole jogging thing. I don't enjoy it at all and I don't get the "runner's high" and I am not a natural athlete, so there you have it. I'm lazy.

But I recently completed another Master cleanse and during this cleanse, I kept having these obsessive ideas that I should get into long distance running. As aerinys suggested, that was probably because my body was screaming at me: "Run! Get us food! Seriously, now! RUN!" In any case, I listened to this crazy voice inside my head that was telling me that I should go running. So, a few weeks ago, I went with saladbar, who is the best runner I know, to her gym. I figured, if anyone could whip me into shape, saladbar could. She is one badass mofo.

saladbar put me on the treadmill and programmed a likely pace for me. Much to my surprise — and hers — I did really well. Including the 10 minute warm-up at the beginning, I went a total of 4.2 miles (running 12 minute miles). I felt like I could go further. So, that was like a 5K right out of the gate. Craziness. I wasn't sure waht to think about all of this.

So then I had all these plans that I would keep it up, but I am lazy and I can't stay on the treadmills at my gym for longer than 30 minutes. So that was my excuse and I came up with a dozen more about why not to run. But these last few days, I've been playing with various routes on the gmaps pedometer, so this morning, I got up at the asscrack of dawn, and went running again. I ran an old route I used to run back in the day when I was forcing myself into it, kicking and screaming.

Unfortunately, I still can't say that I enjoy running. But now, thanks to my personal trainer, saladbar, I understand what I've been doing wrong. I've been trying to run way too fast. It's better to go slower and go the distance. So I ran 4 miles in 49 minutes. To the ocean and back again.

I guess I better buy better running shoes.