So much for getting started

[liv]

Well, that plan of getting back into a regular routine didn't go well. My incipient cold went to my chest and set off my asthma, and the weather was awful, and my parents descended on me unexpectedly, and I was busy sorting things out for a major religious festival. So I ended up not running for 10 days after that first good outing.

Today I still wasn't feeling great, and the weather was still awful, but I decided I had to get going or I really would lose the habit. So I went and renewed my gym membership (which I hadn't bothered with since it expired in April, as I was running outdoors all summer). So now I won't be able to make an excuse if it's cold and pouring with rain and probably dark in the next few weeks. With the state of my lungs I didn't want to push myself too hard; I ran for 10 mins at 7 kph, then 10 mins at 6.5 kph (which is really slow for me, a lot more like jogging than running), then took a walking break before doing the last little bit at 7 kph again. 3.3 km total, but the main thing is not letting a series of missed opportunities turn into giving up running altogether.

Comments

[jack]

*hugs* Ever so well done for joining the gym again. I know I normally say you should keep the habit up come what may, but I think _this_ week, when you've just come back from another continent and have to prepare to lead a yom kippur service almost single-handedly, and several other genuinely unusual things were going on, I think it's fine that this week was an exception. (But best of luck for keeping up the gym habit from now on.)