Summer jogging

[jack]

After nearly a month off, this was my third run. The first time, I gave up, failing to do my previous best of 5k at 7.8kph. Last week I managed it at 7.6kph. Today I managed that again. After about 10 minutes I felt sure I couldn't do it, but I think that was my brain lying to me, because I felt about the same twenty minutes later. It reminds me to always set modest targets so I never get into a habit of needing to give up, which just trains me that I _can_ give up even when I don't really need to.

My clothes were soaked through afterwards, even though I was in a supposedly air-conditioned building. But then I also did weights (pulley, leg curls and shoulder press), which always makes me ache in a really satisfying way afterwards.

And I've been to the gym twice this week, with the weekend still to go.

Comments

[liv]

Ooh, well done! Getting started again when you've had an enforced break is really, really hard. I'm impressed with making it to the gym twice already, too.

And you're right, it's hard to tell the difference between actually needing to give up and just feeling lazy. Well done you for pushing on.