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Some small successes...
Jun. 25th, 2010 04:10 pm ...two weeks running of running - getting out for a lunchtime walk/run 3x/week.
I find that getting out more than 3x/week starts to make a tangible difference - it actually gets easier to run - whereas when my running slots drop to 2x/week, it gets harder and harder to make the time, and the running itself is less fun, and more like work. (A bit like attending fight practice - you can keep it up once you've started, but it's a bugger to get started...)
I think I've worked out a maintainable rhythm: duck out just before noon, be in the park at noon, back shortly after 12.30, shower/change/lunch and back at my desk shortly after 1pm.
The trick will be keeping to that timing (ie. not taking a lot more than an hour total, maybe 1hr 15min) as I increase my distance, or time spent running.
Alternately, I could keep the lunch runs short, and add a 'long slow' run on the weekend.
It's just hard to pry myself off the sofa on the weekends.
Unfortunately, I cannot speed up how long it takes for me to cool off; I can shower and change faster, but I just keep 'glowing' bright red and sweating for a fixed amount of time.
Makeup is a bit of a waste of time on run days - just makes the spots worse.
There's a fun run at work for the office summer fete in mid-July: 5km run or 2.5km walk. Possibly a good date to work towards completing 5km.
I find that getting out more than 3x/week starts to make a tangible difference - it actually gets easier to run - whereas when my running slots drop to 2x/week, it gets harder and harder to make the time, and the running itself is less fun, and more like work. (A bit like attending fight practice - you can keep it up once you've started, but it's a bugger to get started...)
I think I've worked out a maintainable rhythm: duck out just before noon, be in the park at noon, back shortly after 12.30, shower/change/lunch and back at my desk shortly after 1pm.
The trick will be keeping to that timing (ie. not taking a lot more than an hour total, maybe 1hr 15min) as I increase my distance, or time spent running.
Alternately, I could keep the lunch runs short, and add a 'long slow' run on the weekend.
It's just hard to pry myself off the sofa on the weekends.
Unfortunately, I cannot speed up how long it takes for me to cool off; I can shower and change faster, but I just keep 'glowing' bright red and sweating for a fixed amount of time.
Makeup is a bit of a waste of time on run days - just makes the spots worse.
There's a fun run at work for the office summer fete in mid-July: 5km run or 2.5km walk. Possibly a good date to work towards completing 5km.
