Born-again Running Virgin

[jamesq]

Thanks to my recent injury and general laziness (along with putting on a lot of weight), i've not been running at all. This puts me on a considerably downward spiral, since exercise alleviates stress and combats depression, and one of my two sure-fire depression triggers is my weight.

If you ever wanted to know why I consider running so important in my life, there's your answer.

I'm under orders to take it easy to let my shoulder heal. This meant waiting until I could walk for at least thirty minutes without my shoulder getting sore, then starting interval training (the table at the bottom of this entry) from the very beginning.

Well last week I managed to walk for over an hour without my arm getting sore (my legs were pretty tired by the end of it though). Today I did my first run in about two months. It wasn't much of a run (1 minute running, 4 minutes walking for 45 minutes), but it feels great (mentally) to have finally taken back some small measure of control in my life. Physically I'm tired and not-quite-sore, showing just how low I've fallen.

On the bright side, I've gotten lost in these woods before and I know the way out.

In other fitness news, I lost another pound this week.

Comments

[rato-do-perigo.livejournal.com]

i'm glad that you're healing and starting back to running. Missing it?

[jamesq]

I was missing it. I feel old and creaky, but I have to push past that so I can get to the point where I don't feel creaky.