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Continues running, fitness level decreases
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highlyeccentricI last posted in late september, after the 3rd of 4 week 2 sessions. Just finished the 4th or 5th week 3 session, and I am *less fit* now than I was when I first hit week 3. That would be because, due to a break-up and hitting the busy chunk of semester at work, I've been managing to run only once or twice a week. I'm getting the tight-calves leg pain thing again, which I think might correlate to ambient stress level rather than low fitness.
The significantly increased comfort food intake can't help, either. Dammit, before I took up regular structured exercise I would have sworn my fluctuating waistline bore little relation to my fitness in general (except that if working retail 5+ days a week I would drop weight), and *inverse* relation to the amount of sweeties consumed. Indeed that may have previously been true but for once i'm managing a more or less consistent three meals a day *plus* sweeties, which has not previously been the case in times of distress. Hrrmph.
Still, plodding along. Have decided it's not too onerous to run in jeans or in my wrap-around thai fisherman's pants, since it's now too cold for my 3/4 length cargo pants. Sooner or later I guess I'll need trackpants or similar. My new crochet mitts turn out to be perfect for running in fall: enough to keep my first knuckle covered and my hands generally warm (poor circulation and Reynauds disease lurk in my family, I do not like to tempt the gods of the vascular system). They're cotton, so they don't get over-hot or sweaty as fuzzy gloves do.
This can't last - last year I spent a few hours out one evening in december wearing leather gloves and winter coat and *still* came home with my fingers numb, and upon getting into the warm they stung me to tears for half an hour. I can't afford (and doubt I would use) a gym pass, so I might just have to content myself with walking to work all rugged up through December, and try to regain some running fitness during my brief weeks in Australia in January.
The significantly increased comfort food intake can't help, either. Dammit, before I took up regular structured exercise I would have sworn my fluctuating waistline bore little relation to my fitness in general (except that if working retail 5+ days a week I would drop weight), and *inverse* relation to the amount of sweeties consumed. Indeed that may have previously been true but for once i'm managing a more or less consistent three meals a day *plus* sweeties, which has not previously been the case in times of distress. Hrrmph.
Still, plodding along. Have decided it's not too onerous to run in jeans or in my wrap-around thai fisherman's pants, since it's now too cold for my 3/4 length cargo pants. Sooner or later I guess I'll need trackpants or similar. My new crochet mitts turn out to be perfect for running in fall: enough to keep my first knuckle covered and my hands generally warm (poor circulation and Reynauds disease lurk in my family, I do not like to tempt the gods of the vascular system). They're cotton, so they don't get over-hot or sweaty as fuzzy gloves do.
This can't last - last year I spent a few hours out one evening in december wearing leather gloves and winter coat and *still* came home with my fingers numb, and upon getting into the warm they stung me to tears for half an hour. I can't afford (and doubt I would use) a gym pass, so I might just have to content myself with walking to work all rugged up through December, and try to regain some running fitness during my brief weeks in Australia in January.
