I missed out on running a Two-Mile Tuesday and am not yet ready for a Three-Mile Thursday, but as I was running this morning, I realized a Thirty-Minute Thursday was within reach. Then I decided to add another “Th” with three more minutes’ running, and felt I had a shot at a Running Commentary Blog Post.
If anybody has been paying much attention lately (I famously never do), I have not been blogging as regularly as I like to. I like to be a daily blogger. How I managed it before for long periods of time and keep falling short lately, I do not understand. So it has been with my running. I do not aim to run every day, but three to five times a week has often been doable. Did I mention I missed a whole two weeks recently? Oh well, these things happen. All we can do is our best. Or something like that.
I got a slow start this morning. I had half a cup of coffee leftover from yesterday (waste not, want not) that I re-heated, then I made some more (I don’t have one of those fancy one-cup makers). While it brewed, I scrolled Facebook. A friend had posted a picture and said, “Do it anyways.” Good advice. I commented, “OK, but I’m having more coffee first.”
Maybe it only seems steep to me.
There really isn’t much to say about the run itself. It felt pretty good after a sluggish start. I even ran faster at the end. For one reason, I only wanted to go 33 minutes, not more. I mean to start adding more spurts of faster running. I think it’s called fartlek (teehee; I said, “fart”) or more boringly interval training. Now, nobody needs to mansplain these to me or share helpful links. I am just going to run how I run and hope for the best.
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