Thursday,
January 10, 2013
I just couldn’t do another day on the trainer, so I
went to the park to either do a Survival Workout or a run. My rib cage is still a little sore so I
used my big brain and decided to just run. I drove through the park looking over the trails as I went
and could see they were full of ice and mud. It was not going to be a fast run and I wasn’t even sure I’d
be able to run at all. I did
notice the paved all-purpose trails were clean, but I really don’t like running
on pavement. I certainly have a
lot of exercise-related issues.
I started on a bridle trail and found the edges to
have melted down to the earth and had decent footing there. This petered out shortly though, and I
was forced to run on the ice. I
had to slow my pace about a minute a mile, but was able to get reasonably good
footing. I went off-trail for part
of the run and between the snow I found there and trying to maintain my balance
once back on the ice, I was getting a much better workout than I would have on
a clean surface. By the time I
returned to the car, I’d run 35 minutes but felt like it had been an hour. I noticed that the muscles of my legs
and hips were much more fatigued than they would have been normally for such a
short run, which I attribute to the need for the muscles to be constantly
adjusting in the maintenance of balance.
It may have been slower than usual, but I’d burned a lot more calories
than I would have normally in 35 minutes.
I returned home and started pulling ingredients from
the freezer to make my smoothie.
Jack was watching and quite grossed out by my use of frozen spinach and
bananas.
“Why did you freeze them in the first place?” he
wanted to know.
“As soon as they start to spoil or get rotten, I
throw them in the freezer so I can still use them,” I said.
“You should have thrown them in the garbage…they
look gross,” he said.
And he didn’t take me up on my offer to share it
with him once I had it blended.
Run
duration: 35 minutes.
Training
Heart Rate: 140 bpm.
Calories
burned: 650.
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