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muck_a_luckI have always (well for many years, anyway) wanted to try running, but it has never been convenient for me, as I have needed to do my workouts before work and while my children were still abed. Can't really leave a 3 and 11 year old alone asleep in the house to run through the neighborhood woods on the nature paths in the pre-dawn dark - ya know?
But now I am walking The Barbarian to school in the mornings. It is almost exactly one half mile, and I realized yesterday that this would be a great opportunity to try to learn about running. Walking her there at her pace is a good warmup, then I could stretch there and try running home.
School to home is probably just over half a mile if I take the hilly nature paths and do a turn around the cul-de-sac instead of running straight to our front door.
So this morning, I tried it out. Did some light quad, hamstring and calf stretches at the school the booked it home as fast as I could run, taking walking breaks as needed. It took me 8 minutes to do what I think was probably .6 mile.
I chose a very bad pair of pants. I wanted some with pockets, but these were clearly not intended for running, as they kept falling down. I have some exercise shorts to try tomorrow, meanwhile will need to carry keys and cell phone until I get some running pants with pockets.
At the end of my 8 minutes I was DONE. But I'm thinking I will continue to run home every morning, and when it feels comfortable and I'm ready to do more when I hit my front door, I'll just keep running, back around to the walking path and maybe down around the lake and back or something.
And if I *never* feel up to doing that, I still may try to run home every day. It's good exercise and easy to build into my day, so it seems like a good habit to cultivate, even if that is IT for my running lifestyle.
But now I am walking The Barbarian to school in the mornings. It is almost exactly one half mile, and I realized yesterday that this would be a great opportunity to try to learn about running. Walking her there at her pace is a good warmup, then I could stretch there and try running home.
School to home is probably just over half a mile if I take the hilly nature paths and do a turn around the cul-de-sac instead of running straight to our front door.
So this morning, I tried it out. Did some light quad, hamstring and calf stretches at the school the booked it home as fast as I could run, taking walking breaks as needed. It took me 8 minutes to do what I think was probably .6 mile.
I chose a very bad pair of pants. I wanted some with pockets, but these were clearly not intended for running, as they kept falling down. I have some exercise shorts to try tomorrow, meanwhile will need to carry keys and cell phone until I get some running pants with pockets.
At the end of my 8 minutes I was DONE. But I'm thinking I will continue to run home every morning, and when it feels comfortable and I'm ready to do more when I hit my front door, I'll just keep running, back around to the walking path and maybe down around the lake and back or something.
And if I *never* feel up to doing that, I still may try to run home every day. It's good exercise and easy to build into my day, so it seems like a good habit to cultivate, even if that is IT for my running lifestyle.
