slowly going faster
Jul. 30th, 2013 05:18 pmThe thing about running is that I can see improvement on a week-to-week basis. I mean, what I mostly see is how I'm not there yet and taking forever to get there, but that's why I keep a log. I can look back and say that yeah, I'm getting somewhere. Where 'somewhere' is defined as 'running 5k [three miles plus a bit] in 37 minutes, including a two-minute walk at about the 25-minute mark, after four months of getting out at least twice a week.'
According to the couch-to-5k plan I ought to have been running the full 5k in thirty minutes by last month sometime. I blame my factory-second lungs.
On the other hand, where I'm at now would have been completely impossible four months ago, or even one month ago.
It's trite and cliche to say 'everybody's got their own pace for improvement' and 'keep going you'll get there.' Those never meant anything to me. Anything I couldn't do right the first time was a source of scorn: come on, you're smarter than that, etc.
It's nice to have something that I'm a) awful at, b) allowed to be awful at, and c) less awful at than I used to be.
Wisdom from Twitter, original sources sadly misplaced:
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According to the couch-to-5k plan I ought to have been running the full 5k in thirty minutes by last month sometime. I blame my factory-second lungs.
On the other hand, where I'm at now would have been completely impossible four months ago, or even one month ago.
It's trite and cliche to say 'everybody's got their own pace for improvement' and 'keep going you'll get there.' Those never meant anything to me. Anything I couldn't do right the first time was a source of scorn: come on, you're smarter than that, etc.
It's nice to have something that I'm a) awful at, b) allowed to be awful at, and c) less awful at than I used to be.
Wisdom from Twitter, original sources sadly misplaced:
- Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window. Because God doesn't really understand how doors work.
- Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
- It never gets any easier. You just get more data points for how well you can stick with it.
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