I said I would run Sunday and blog about it Monday, so that motivated me. The warm weather was further motivation. Fifty degrees! Woohoo! I was on my way!
As it turns out, I needed all the motivation I could get, because almost as soon as I started my body began to complain. “What’s this?” my legs said. “You took Tabby for a half hour walk. Isn’t that enough exercise?” And they immediately lodged a request that I not run up any hills. Well, that was just too bad, because there was no traffic on German Street. That is my sign that I should cross the street and run up the hill by Valley Health Services. Sometimes it is the sign that I should run up the hill to Herkimer County Community College, but I haven’t been running much lately.
When I got to Valley Health, I saw a pedestrian couple headed that way from another direction. There was some more motivation. It’s one thing when I am behind a pedestrian and it takes me a long time to catch up. When I am ahead of a pedestrian, it would be just embarrassing for them to catch up with me.
Valley Health is not on that high or steep of a hill, so I made it OK. After the hill I reached the “I can rock this” stage of the run. At least, I said, “I can rock this,” to which my body replied, “OK, but not for too long.” Ah well, we build up slowly. Increase by 10% per week, the guy at the Sneaker Store told me. I guess my next goal is to keep running for more than a week. I’ll let you know how that goes.
So my Sunday run was not too bad, in spite of my petty complaints. I am happy to be back into running. I hope to soon have more exciting runs to report.
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