Categories: uncategorized
Date: 27 January 2004 08:41:44
well i'm writing this in notepad as my beloved net connection has stopped talking to me, and i dont have the backup dial-in settings to hand, i'll have to check things out from work tomorrow (or today as it will by the time i can put this up).
miraculously after a bit of faffing about when i got back from work i mustered enough motivation to go for a gentle recovery run. the temperature is due to plummet this week and it's already particularly chilly. when i say plummet i mean to levels some parts of the world would consider fairly mild, i've seen -42c and run down to -10c. although i'm always impressed how 0c here feels the same as -15c in sweden, something to do with the moisture maybe.
anyway todays run was a low pressure affair just stretching my legs after a day off yesterday and saturdays long run.
taking it easy means short strides but at a reasonably fast rate (if that makes any sense). i mainly concentrated on running efficiently with my feet barely lifting off the ground, no need to waste energy doing anything more than necessary! and what i like to think of as stealth running, noisy footsteps mean wasted energy too and if i concentrate i can reduce the noise below the ambient traffic, and sneak up on unsuspecting pedestrians :)
i put a bit of an effort in on both hills on this route, in the hope of gaining a little strength from it.
association & dis-association are interesting endurance sport terms, i guess they come from psychology originally, i must look into it.
dis-associating my mind from my body's exertions works well enough most of the time, and lately it's been distracted by thinking about this blog amongst other things, today confusingly enough i was dis-associated by musing about association.. more on that later if i ever make any sense of it!
[yesterdays run: 3.5miles 0:31 8:51mins/mile]
[this weeks run total: 3.5miles]