Weekly check-in

[yvi]

It's Monday! How did your last running week go? What are you planning for next?

And a question: do you listen to anything while you are running? Music, podcasts, audiobooks?

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[sophinisba]

I usually try to run five days a week and I only got in 4 days last week (Sunday-Saturday), partly because of holiday busyness. Still, I did 205 minutes during the week, which is not far off from the 220 minutes (about 20 miles) I try to do each week.

And then! Yesterday it was relatively warm and I had lots of time so I went to run outside, and I ended up running for 90 minutes (with 3 minutes of walking and shoe-tying mixed in), which is the most I've ever done in one run! (This one time a couple months ago I did like 35 minutes and then 55 minutes an hour later, or something like that.) And! Right in the last minute or two there was this bit of music that I like on my iPod so I decided to sprint while that part was playing, and I totally still could! I felt great! It was the first time I ever thought, "Yeah, I could do a marathon, why not?" while running. I mean, not that I want to do one tomorrow, but it seemed like something I could train for next year or maybe the next, and I had never really felt that way before.

So that was awesome! The rest of my runs this week will probably be inside, and that is okay. I don't have any races coming up, but I'm planning to work on getting faster over the next few months.

PS I sometimes listen to music or podfics or audiobooks. Lately I've been enjoying slate.com podcasts a lot. Music usually works better when I'm indoors though because the track I run on is by the basketball court, and it's often too loud to make out a lot of speech.