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Three reasons why I run
Back to the track
It has begun!
My first 5k session after almost six months off, and it wasn’t the easiest. A lot of huffing and puffing at points, most probably because I lacked my usual rhythm.
With the marathon pushed back to September this year, training will be slightly different as I’ll have to sweat it out through the summer months. That in turn can often mean you run a bit slower anyway, as when the weather cool your pace picks up. Not excuses, just facts!
Having completed the marathon last year, and declaring my marathon running days over (okay, there’s a caveat in there), I still wanted to carry on long distance running. After I started four years ago, I was suddenly introduced a sport I had written off before, and now embrace. Here are the reasons why:
Learning to breathe
How many flights of stairs can you walk up without being out of breath at the top? Now try running up those stairs, how do you feel now?
If you are still able to belt out a Pavarotti song, then you’ve got some good lungs on you and you remembered to use them properly.
I’ve played a lot of sport throughout my life, and never thought too much about breathing until I started kickboxing, where every strike coincided with a…
