Like I mentioned before I figured I would make up for the diet issue of last week by possibly running and well today I started. At 10am I went for a run, my first run in a really really REALLY long time, I had no idea how far I was going to run and what was going to happen, but I got up at 8am, had breakfast, thought about it, then at 9:50am I started stretching and doing some warm ups to make sure I did not mess myself up. Got my MP3 player a bottle of water and headed out the door. Waited until I got to the street light of the first major intersection where I know the other side the lights are almost always green and I would rarely stop at a light, and as soon as the light hit green I started running or jogging however you want to call it and pressed the stop watch on my watch and went for it.
At first I was thinking about my legs, felt a couple of odd things here and there but I thought nothing really bad for me to stop so just keep going, I was just a little creaky in some places as I had not actually ran in a long time, but a couple of min went by and I thought hey I am doing this and I feel OK. I did not look at my watch I was just looking at visual queues to see where I could pin point a stop but at the same time I had no idea how long I would last so I just kept going.
The street I chose was pretty interesting, nice and long, with a bit of down hill and up hill and 2 straight areas, so a nice variety. At one point I was going up hill and I thought ok I will stop when I reach the hill, but when I got there, I spotted a bridge at the bottom of the hill and I thought, ok it’s going down hill, I can make it there, and when I got there at the distance I spotted the next large intersection and I thought I am sure I can make it all the way over there, so I went for it. When I got to the intersection, the light turned red and I started running in place, I then changed to a fast Heisman, like the ones from Insanity and it felt good, then the light turned green and I started running forward and well I was heading towards the beach so I thought, what the heck I will make my way to the beach and then stop there, I was starting to feel it at that point and knew that the beach for sure would be my stop, I spotted a play ground and I wanted to stop there but I couldn’t so I spotted tree that was closer and used it as a marker and slowed down, and finally looked at my watch, it said 16:29min. I already knew that it use to take me about 45min to walk to the playground and I ran it in 16.29min, damn in less then half the time, that was awesome.
I relaxed for 5min as I slowly walked and watched some events going on, there was a 10k marathon going on, a kayak and canoe race and some guys using a parasail to float down a hill, which looked fun. I then started a fast walk, made my way to the exercising section of the beach. Used the pull up bars and did 10 reverse grip pull ups, followed by 6 wide pull ups, then I went to the monkey bars and did 10 pull ups with my hands in parallel, then I placed my feet up on the monkey bars and did another 10 pull ups like that, got down and started on a fast walk back to home, I wanted to run but I did not want to mess myself up on my first day, so I fast walked and all this took me 1.5hrs.
Came home, ate omega 3 egg omelet with multigrain bread plus some skim milk and while I ate I researched the distance that I ran, thank God for Google Maps LOL now towards the end of my route I had to get creative because Google Maps did not map the bike route, so I ran 2.9km (1.8 miles) and the time I spent running in place and doing the Heisman probably gave me the full 3km WOOHOO!!
Here is the screenshot of Google Maps:
The red segment is the bike path, I stopped in front of the tree where the red line ends. Well I have to say that for a first run in like maybe 15 years, 3km was way to awesome. Of course I was soar. Green A is the first major intersection where I started and the curve is where the second major intersection came to play, and of course the red line is where the bike path went in to the beach, so I continued the google mark the same distance but on the main road in order to get the distance.
I waited till 3pm and I did my Yoga X:
Being sore on the legs is not the best thing for Yoga LOL but I did it anyways, my left leg was a bit more soar than the right. But I did my yoga as usual, nice slow chaturanga, with a nice and tall upward dog knees almost touching the floor, a push up before every downward dog. The part I had real problems with due to my sore legs was the half moon poses, man that hurt and I could not keep it going all the time, I had to put my leg down once and I did not float back nicely, I actually had to stand up first while rubbing my butt LOL and then place myself in crescent pose and keep going from there, but everything else was pretty much the same.
Once I finished I had my Whey Protein and after a little bit, thanks to Yoga and the amino acids most of my soreness went away :o)
Today I can for sure say once again I so BROUGHT IT!! YEAH!!
Tomorrow I have Core Synergistics, and I will try to get up and run again :o)
Thank you for your time:
Mike
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