Motivation for my slow-poke ass
August 6th, 2008
I just read the following on a blog that I really like by a woman who runs (has run a marathon in the past, didn’t run for a while, and now is retraining to run a 1/2 marathon coming up this month). Anyway, she said she was looking at her blog from last year, when she started running again. And here’s what she found:
“Anyway, in further poking, I read January of this blog and I noticed that when I first started going on the treadmill, the setting 4.3 was like my high setting. I had to do my best to get through it, going at that pace.
You know what 4.3 is now? My resting pace. When I get too tired, I go down to 4.3. I go lower when I walk, but for running? 4.3? Wimpy. My highest number now? Seven. Maybe someday seven will be my resting pace. Or not.”
Like I said in my post below, I ran tonight at 4.7 and 5.5. I just revisited my Couch to 5k page, and in my first weeks of running, 4.5 was my maxed out balls to the wall running speed. Progress!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:00 am
AH! that’s SO amazing to hear! Sometimes I worry when I’m dying at 4.6-4.8 and truly dying at 5.0, and then I remember, DAMN i used to not be able to do more than 3.5 /3.7 without having to stand on the sides of the treadmill. sometimes it’s really good to remind ourselves that we have COME SO far and we have so much potential to go farther as long as we stay on track! speaking of staying on track, you did AWESOMELY TODAY! and ps, way to snag a husband who LIKES Going to the the gym!
those guys are hard to come by, and I sure havent found one yet
August 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Sometimes we forget how far we’ve come because we are so busy striving to go ever FURTHER! Way to go on your run!
I think the gym is a great date, who doesn’t love a hot, sweaty man!
August 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I think I need to return to my early c25k pages to remind myself of how far I’ve come too. Thanks for the reminder.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Good for you!! See, I was at a 5mph and a little higher but then had to slow down b/c of my knees. Now I sometimes think I am running too slow at 4.6. Hmmm… although I have recently abandoned the treadmill for the awesomeness of the precor machine. It’s not as “boring”
P.S. Check your other blog