runners high*
I’ve actually managed to go a few days without posting, amazing. Been using these few days of my break pretty well (see previous doodle-posts) and I’m enjoying my free time.
So… when I said “running” before, I really meant jogging…very slowly. But at least I’m still doing it. After the feeble first day, I’ve been able to jog (once again, slowly) all the way down to Gasworks and back, starting at the trail & 7th, and with a little water & walking break at Gasworks. I think the trick is finding a good album to listen to that has a tempo sort of similar to my pace, cause I think what killed me the first day was trying to keep up with Daft Punk.
Anyways, this is pretty cool cause I’ve never been active at all or been able to stay jogging for any significant distance. I suppose the only time I’ve ever really tried before was when they made us do the mile run in gym. But I pretty much didn’t give a shit about running the mile for my teletubbie-crazy gym teachers. I suppose it helps that I’ve had to walk everywhere since I’ve been here too. But yeah, it’s kinda neat actually being able to feel my body getting used to it (ie. not feeling like my chest is going to implode, not being ridiculously sore afterwards, etc).
Using the chord from my headphones and the little scale thing on my map it looks like almost about a mile from my starting point on the trail to the park. I think it’s also almost about half a mile from my apartment to the trail. It’s probably about a bit under 3 miles all together. Probably quite a bit under actually, but it’s a nice rough estimate. Jogging 2 and walking 1 isn’t too bad. But like I said, I’m slow. I actually kinda timed myself today starting and ending at my apartment, took about 35-40 minutes. I don’t really care about speed cause my main goal is to just be able to do it and feel nice. But Zach’s dad gave me a brochure for this 5k midnight run that I actually kind of want to try just cause I’ve never done one before and it seems kinda neat. But it’s not that far from now and I’m really not if I’d be ready to by then. I dunno, I guess we’ll see. I have till the day before it to actually decide.
* Also a Pillows song from FLCL. Listen to it.