sustainablity

[forgotten_aria]

I took dcltdw's advice and ran a lot slower and a little longer. The self-hatred was much less. It still wasn't fun, but I am kind of neutral about myself right now, which given history is a big win. The good news is I kept my sub 12 minute mile pace for half a mile without stopping to walk. I know that's only a 1/3 of the goal, but it still felt encouraging that I my "slow" pace was the pace I need to maintain.

Sadly the data on the GPS watch seems to be corrupted, so now I can't trust what it said, so who knows. maybe I didn't. I claims I did a 13:15 overall pace over 2 miles and my first mile was 12:27. Given that I was focusing on not making myself miserable, that's not so bad.

The bottom line is I did the running and it hasn't triggered full mental health issues and that's a qualified good.

Comments

[mathhobbit]

Hooray! I refuse to run at all, so you're waaay ahead of me!

[dcltdw]

Wait, what? I thought you were on week 2, which is jog 90 sec, walk 120 sec, repeat for 20 mins.

So, on the one hand, it's cool that you can go a half-mile. Also unsurprising.

On the other hand, the plan exists for a reason. If you want to prevent an injury, follow the plan. If you just keep trying to go for 1.5 miles without doing intervals, I'm guessing in 6-10 weeks, you'll be sidelined with an injury of the form "can't run 400m without significant pain for 2 months".

So yay for qualified good! But get back to the plan. There are a lot of subtleties going on in 9 weeks, of which injury prevention is only one of many.

[forgotten_aria]

I was trying to go for no expectations, since the intervals were triggering my "I suck," brain thoughts. I will try to go back to the plan, but it doesn't help if I have mental break down to save a physical one.

[dcltdw]

Gotcha. Good plan.

My hope (that, really, I don't have a clue if it'd work or not) is that by doing vastly easier intervals, you can overwrite the triggering thoughts.

[forgotten_aria]

I will definitely try again, but getting stuck in the program doesn't help the metal state.

[blk]

Running for 1/2 mile and not hating yourself sound like great improvements! I basically always always need to run slower. I have found that if I succeed at making myself slow down enough, I actually feel -good- after a run instead of just done. It's not something I'm good at though.