The title of this entry pretty much sums up my thoughts right now….OUCH!\u00a0 I just finished run #2 in my new shoes after 3 days off from the first run (and looking like perhaps another 2-3 days until my next).\u00a0 I went about 2 miles with a break in between mile 1 and 2 to stop at my gym to do some upper body lifting.\u00a0 Getting back into the run after lifting was tough.\u00a0 My calves were (and still are) so tight and sore I would let out an audible grunt each time I went from a walk to a run.\u00a0 I think I also probably looked like a person trying to run in diving flippers because that was my basic form for about 5 strides until my calves would settle down a bit.<\/p>\n
What is different in this run vs. my previous runs is that it was the pain that kept me from running – not being out of breath which is more often the case.\u00a0 So I know that it is just the adjustment to this new running style – firming up muscles that have been long under used. I do have to say that I am still not comfortable in the new style.\u00a0 I fee awkward and a little clumsy and of course there is the pain.\u00a0 But I will defeat this pain and (hopefully) become a runner with more endurance.<\/p>\n
I have decided that I will begin training for a race in October.\u00a0 It is actually a 4 mile trail run so I will need to get out to some trails when I have overcome this initial leg pain from the shoes to practice running through trails again (it’s been a LONG time since Jr. High cross-country!).\u00a0 But it looks like a fun little run through a local park…plus it is a run\/walk so for me win\/win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The title of this entry pretty much sums up my thoughts right now….OUCH!\u00a0 I just finished run #2 in my new shoes after 3 days off from the first run (and looking like perhaps another 2-3 days until my next).\u00a0 I went about 2 miles with a break in between mile 1 and 2 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}