Originally Posted July 24, 2009
Friday- Really early start today. I drove down to my parents' (about an hour away, got here around 6:30 a.m.) and decided on the fly to do today's run around a small neighborhood track I'd be passing. It's only 0.6 miles, so talk about boring! I tried to focus on breathing correctly today...usually my lungs die way before my body feels the exhaustion. There's a lot of crazy breathing instructions out there! Most people seem to agree that you should breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth. Exhaling deeply insures you're expelling the most CO2, which means it's not going to build up and cause aches quickly. One thing I discredited right away was the prospect of linking your breathing with music, like an IPOD, while running. I had always heard that was a terrible thing to do, because as the music is changing from Brad Paisley to Nine Inch Nails to Amy Winehouse to Mozart, your breathing will also change rapidly, most likely without you realizing. Doesn't exactly sound like fun to end up hyperventilating!
One thing I saw a lot was to breathe in a cadence by counting the steps you take while inhaling and exhaling, most frequently something like 2 steps for each. I paid close attention today, and I couldn't do anything besides 4 steps for an exhale and 3 steps for inhaling. Breathing any faster and I started taking really short, uncontrolled horrible gasps of pain! I know I'm not running slowly, because I kept track of how many miles I ran...I'm just taking super deep breaths. Oh well! I'll keep working on it, but once I started paying attention, the rest of the time flew by and it seemed much easier. Yay, easier!
Looking forward to sunday's day of rest though :)
Update for Friday afternoon: blueberry picking has been officially designated by the committee as "low impact cardio"...who knew!
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