Week 12 was supposed to be a week to make up for
running. Weekday runs were doing great,
with the plan to do LSD on an work-free Friday and a brick run on Sunday. Those plans did not materialize! Well the bike was a sure thing though.
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| A good way to run (for fitness) |
I was suffering a week of sinus pains that really made it
hard for me to do anything. Yet I still
pushed through to do my morning runs because I was already up.
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| Dr. Rizal at the background |
Going back to Friday, I knew the moment I woke up that it
would be a bad day for a run. Since the
runner in me was strong in overcoming those reason-to-stay-in-bed excuses, I
pushed on. So I ate a bit to fuel me up
for the long run, put on my gears and went on.
The sun was up and I forgot to bring my cap, I pushed on.
It’s common for me to have that 1-mile dragging moment, but
it was up till kilometer 3 that I was breathing and feeling heavy. So I went back, tried to run and shake it off
until the kilometer 4, jogged until kilometer 5 and eventually just walked from
there home. That Friday run was a
disaster. Really didn’t know what happened to me that day. Anyway, I got back home and did my usual
chores. I considered it as one of those
days where you just can’t force it.
Come Saturday, we agreed to do a family active fun day at Rizal Park. I didn’t expect to do any runs here.
We jogged a bit in the Grand Stand, through Rizal Park into
the dancing fountains and up to the playground.
Playground was still closed and we had 20 minutes of waiting time. Good thing Charlie was enjoying the outdoors
and didn’t have any problems with the waiting.
So the wife gave me the go-signal to run, which I did a 3k. Again, the first few km was dragging, but got
the groove as I was going along.
However, I noticed heavy breathing once again as I was going for 5:30
pace. And I stopped as we were out of
time, and had to go to the playground.
30 minutes into it, Charlie got hungry and we ate at Jollibee.
The morning active fun day we had beats LSD anytime! With the current fitness level that I have, I
feel like I would rather do our active fun day rather than to work on improving
my running again. It may sound bad, but
I will still run, and will never stop running.
Maybe not competitively, but for health and fitness.
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| going through Rizal Park |
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| my little runner |
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| this pic had a lot of likes in FB |
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| Recovery time (for them; for me, I couldn't) |
