It’s been quite a while since I’ve had anything significant to say about my running. In the months before the wedding, Sid and I had been running off and on, depending on the weather and our time constraints as we vigourously looked for a house and finished last-minute wedding planning details. When we did run, it was awfully slow, as we tried to get used to the sub-freezing temperatures, the biting winds, and the lack of oxygen in the air at our 7100+ foot altitude.
We had hoped to get some nice runs in on our honeymoon, but that didn’t work out quite as we planned when I got bronchitis.
Now that we are back, however, things have really been falling into place! We have been running consistantly – probably 4 or 5 days every week since we’ve been back. I am starting to feel like I have a little bit of speed again. For me, the biggest downer on our runs before the wedding was the feeling that I was so out of shape and had absolutely no speed. Every run felt like I was crawling, but I couldn’t go any faster. It was not very exciting to get out the door and run when I felt like that every day!
Since returning, though, we have incorporated some easy strides into our runs, which has helped me get back into form, and has reminded my legs what it feels like to go a little faster. I also did a 3×800’s workout last week to try to get my body into the feel of running at tempo-run pace. It went much better than I anticipated, and since then I have been using better form and have felt faster on all my runs. I have been quite pleased at the progress I’ve made just in a few weeks.
I know I am still far from being in the shape I want to be in, but I am more than happy to just be “feeling good” on my runs for now.
