It’s a bit cooler this morning, which made for much more pleasant running conditions. Today was an easy run day for a number of reasons.
1 – I can’t go hard every day without getting injured. So it makes sense to tone it back now and then.
2 – I did a pool session last night (mostly to cool off) focusing on my breathing. So my lungs are not really up for being punished today.
3 – If it stays cool, I’ll be heading out for a longer run this evening
So I ran lightly, concentrating on relaxing my shoulders and hips. That takes some work actually. I keep tensing up as soon as I stop concentrating on it. So plenty of work to be done here I think.
I did notice a big difference in how I felt when I got home however. I feel a lot less taxed than usual (maybe because I was running slower??) so I think the running relaxed thing is going to work well for me.
The next step will be to transition the relaxed running into the trails. At the moment I’m just doing a street circuit while I focus on getting things right.
One interesting thing I found in the pool last night while wearing my Garmin 630 sport watch – the touch screen is very sensitive to water. It kept changing screens while I was swimming! The water flowing over it was making it flip to all sorts of admin screens and such. Quite annoying really.
It also didn’t track my heart rate and distance properly. So there was no point in wearing it really. The swim training should, with any luck, improve my lung efficiency, and the core work I did before getting into the pool should work towards addressing my core issues.
That, combined with my discovery of the secret sauce for running, might just make me into a runner that is not constantly in a race for last place. One can only hope.
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