I want to give a shout-out to Commodore for his fabulous No Limits challenge to us all. I decided it was just what I needed to jumpstart my glacial progress and got on board.
With that in mind, I went into today's cardio session with a completely different plan. That is, none at all. I usually start a run workout with a plan from a running book of how many intervals for how many minutes... very regimented. While this has been good for my progress overall, lately I finish my intervals feeling like I could have run just a little more. After reading Commodore's post I realized I've been placing artificial limits on my running.
Today I decided screw the intervals, let's just see how long I can keep it up. I have a tendency to let my mind defeat me when the minutes start adding up because contrary to the mounting evidence, deep down I guess I still believe I can't run, so I had to try something completely different. I started running at my easy warm-up speed (4.7 mph, or about a 12:45 pace). Then to trick myself, after every 1 minute I bumped up the speed .1 mph. Sounds dumb, but it worked like a charm. It was easy to run for each minute, and my brain forgot to add them all up.
The end results was this: I ran the longest I've ever run non-stop in my life - 7 whole minutes. Ended up being about .65 miles - also the farthest distance I've ever run.
Might not sound like much, but it was a major mental and physical breakthrough for me and I can't wait to try it again tomorrow.
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No way! No way! The Kahuna already made me give up candy for New Years, and now Com wants me to do sittups and crunchs and stretches, what's next? Brocolli for breakfast? No way I am so not in! I'm not, I swear, I'm not, well ok, maybe, if you talk me in to it. Wait a sec, I think I can touch my toes while sitting at the 'puter. Arrrrghhh stop with the !@#$#&%$#@@$ challenges already! ;)
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