So I start running today (Tuesday, April 03) and I’m trying to come up with my blog topic. Right off the bat I realize what the problem is. I’m starting off the run. I’m not yet in the lounge chair portion of my run yet. If you have no clue as to what I am referring then you may want to see my first post of this feature (Lounge Chair Jogging and Water Conservation). Anyway, not to worry; a few yards further and nature takes its course. The body makes it’s complaints and I get to work.
The problem today, however is that my legs are terribly sore. It’s the lower portion too… the part that is famous for developing “shin splints“. And believe you me… you don’t want that! I’ve had that particular problem before and it is very painful indeed. So I decided the best alternative was to just take it easy. Sweet and simple. Slow down the pace.
Guess what? It worked! Very well, in fact. It worked so well that the “second” half of my run came well before the actual halfway point (in distance) of my route. My breathing became easier, my legs felt better and everything was good with the world. So good that I felt as if I could’ve added on a bit to the route today. I resisted the temptation though because I did not want to injure myself. I will continue on my current planned course with 2.5 miles this week and if all goes well, then I might add a half mile or even a whole mile next week. We’ll see.
So just how slow was this pace you ask? It was pretty slow at times. At the slowest I probably could have speed walked at the same pace. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. Why? Because what was I doing? I was moving my 205 lbs butt from point A to point B; that’s what I was doing. I wasn’t sitting at my computer chair clicking a mouse and munching on Cheetos (Produced by Frito-Lay who happens to be owned by PepsiCo: Public, NYSE PEP). Anyway, movement is good. I highly suggest it if any of you are thinking of trying it out.
Well, it seems as a reward for my newfound energy in the slower pace I ran into an old friend. His name you ask. Why it was good ole George Washington. Yep! On the second half of my run a nice crisp one dollar bill just lying on the side of the road was smiling up at me. Sure one dollar isn’t much in todays world, but it’s more than not. And a dollar found is a dollar earned… or something like that. Plus it’s always fun to find money.
BTW: In the last entry I alluded to the fact that I may have an “actual” online runner’s log that would have a calendar of the days that I ran and the distance. Well I do now! That was quick and easy all thanks to Google Calendar. Just click on the Runner’s Log link at the top of the page to check it out.
Fascinating stuff, I was rivited to the screen giddy with anticipation like a school girl surfer waiting on the next big wave. By the way, what is the deadline for updating your runners log? I check it first thing every morning. Is there any way for you to add a RSS feature to this? Just a constructive request from your most devoted Bloggy.
Currently there are RSS feeds for the comments section of any one particular blog or for the entire franzone.com blog. I’m researching a way to add a feed for each of my categories so I can have a Runner’s Log feed and a Family and Parenting feed, etc.
This was a good post and just a good site in general. One of the reasons I like this site and its author is because everything is extremely thoughtful. I consider the author one of my best friends, but if you took a picture of us and put us side by side you would probably say we have nothing in common. If you compared our personal histories you would again say these two have nothing in common. But the one thing we do have in common, and most important, is the ability to objectivly look at anything. Jonathan makes me laugh like no other human being on this earth. The reason for that is not really a common sense of humor but common sense. We can look at all of the perspectives of a situation and find the irony it it all. Good post and thanks for the RSS feeds.
P.S. If you are ever in a wreck and the parametric comes up and asks you how you are feeling, well he is just like everyone else, he really does not care. He really just wants to know if you have any engeries RELATED to the accident. So please don’t tell him you are a little depressed over American Idol and Synjia, or that it burns when you pee pee. He doesn’t care.
Who are you? And what did you do with my friend. I commuted to and from work with you for a few years? Are you really kidding. I hope the electronics around you are on surge protectors.
Thanks for the kind, kind remarks. The thing I love about Synjia is that he SUCKS and America is going to make him the next idol and it will be the end of the stupid show! Sorry
I’m not that much of an American Idol hater… I’m just disappointed with the overall talent they were stuck with this season. They should just fire them all and pick a whole new lot in my opinion.
Oh, and telling the paramedic that it burns when he pees when I had just rear-ended another vehicle on the way home from work…. yeah… that really happened. Talk about hilarious. I almost fell out of the truck laughing my ass off.
Been there…doing that! Glad you’re keeping with it, I’ve just gotten back in the running game - I really missed it!! Time for a race!!
Yep, I’m co-training with my father-in-law to do the double-bridge next year (12k). Then we’re hoping to shoot for the Blue Angel marathon after that. We’ll see.
Right on Jonathan. I’m with you all the way.
I enjoy your daily life happenings. Please don’t leave us; I look forward to your stories. Sometimes I don’t have time to comment,but I do enjoy reading and staying in touch with what you and the family are doing. It’s always refreshing to my dull life. ha