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legalmooseBecause it's positively gorgeous outside here in DC (officially it's 67 - my balcony temp gauge says 72), I went for a run. Outside. Figured if I ended up having to walk, at least I wouldn't freeze out there.
It went okay. Heart rate was okay until about 1/2 way in, then it was up and wanted to stay there. Ran the entire thing, slowly, save for a period right at the end when I had to walk to bring my heart rate down to a reasonable level. I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow (yay delayed onset soreness), but at the moment the light muscular soreness feels like heaven. Foot's doing okay, and I made sure to take the yoga strap and stretch it thoroughly at the end of my stretching routine (which, courtesy the pilates/core class I took last week, now includes a lovely deep stretch for the IT band as well). So far so good. Again, will sleep in the brace as a just in case, but this is definitely heartening.
It was so nice to be able to run outside, too. I really do dislike treadmills. Did do one thing which was not normal for me - I took the new shuffle out for a spin and ran with music on (though turned down fairly low). It wasn't bad, but I did find that my brain tended to disengage more than I'm used to doing on a run. Running was active meditation time for me, letting my mind wander as it would. Mainly I got the shuffle for use in the gym, and when I have to run on a treadmill, and I think perhaps that's where it needs to stay. I'll need to create a more customized playlist, too - while I had it load the thing with 4 & 5 star rated songs, I need to be pickier about putting on more up-tempo stuff if it's going to be on while exercising.
It went okay. Heart rate was okay until about 1/2 way in, then it was up and wanted to stay there. Ran the entire thing, slowly, save for a period right at the end when I had to walk to bring my heart rate down to a reasonable level. I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow (yay delayed onset soreness), but at the moment the light muscular soreness feels like heaven. Foot's doing okay, and I made sure to take the yoga strap and stretch it thoroughly at the end of my stretching routine (which, courtesy the pilates/core class I took last week, now includes a lovely deep stretch for the IT band as well). So far so good. Again, will sleep in the brace as a just in case, but this is definitely heartening.
It was so nice to be able to run outside, too. I really do dislike treadmills. Did do one thing which was not normal for me - I took the new shuffle out for a spin and ran with music on (though turned down fairly low). It wasn't bad, but I did find that my brain tended to disengage more than I'm used to doing on a run. Running was active meditation time for me, letting my mind wander as it would. Mainly I got the shuffle for use in the gym, and when I have to run on a treadmill, and I think perhaps that's where it needs to stay. I'll need to create a more customized playlist, too - while I had it load the thing with 4 & 5 star rated songs, I need to be pickier about putting on more up-tempo stuff if it's going to be on while exercising.
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Date: 2009-02-08 09:41 pm (UTC)