working out is working out

"Doug Mitchell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just a small success story...so far.

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D. Mitchell

Well done! Keep it up and a year from now you will be AMAZED at yourself!
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Les <SlowFoot> Stewart
Beaumont, TX

Doug Mitchell said:

Just a small success story...so far.

After being a healthy but sedentary adult (age 44) I began

walking/jogging 3

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months back. Last day I was able to jog 5 km in 0 degrees F in under

29

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minutes. Importantly no injuries have developed. I go about 3 X per

week; it

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is still a bit of a hard go but after each run it does feel like I

have done

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something important for myself. But heck you guys and girls know this
already.

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D. Mitchell

Doug: You could hardly overstate how much you are doing for yourself
(and those who care about you or depend upon you) right now. Besides,
if you play your cards right, don't push too hard, but keep it
interesting, you will find, I think, that you will come to love
running.

That is not to say that you will love each time you go out to run. You
may not love having to get up earlier, or however you fit it into your
schedule. But right now, I am off (hopefully for just a few weeks) for
a rather severe achilles heel injury, and it is driving me nuts. So be
careful and have fun. It's a really good thing you are doing.
Brian Jones

I find it amazing. Either you have the constitution of a bull or I
have a weak constitution - more likely the latter.

I ran 5K in 29 minutes about 4 months after I resumed jogging
(after a lapse of 20 years) and I was 37 then. But that was in a
5K race and that is an important difference because you go all
out in a race and in a casual jog you don't.

I sufferred quite a few injuries mainly on account of varying the
quality of my training runs too drastically. Each such injury put
me out of running for more than 4 weeks. I would urge caution.

And then the most important factor is motivation as everyone
knows. I find it easier to workout in a gym mainly due to the
wide variety of equipment. I do a fair amount of cardio and some
amount of weights, but at the end of an hour-and-a-half session
I don't feel bored. Cross-training helps. My 2c.

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I find it amazing. Either you have the constitution of a bull or I
have a weak constitution - more likely the latter.

Thanks for the encouragement.

I would much prefer to run in the winter than the summer. I hate the heat.

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I sufferred quite a few injuries mainly on account of varying the
quality of my training runs too drastically. Each such injury put
me out of running for more than 4 weeks. I would urge caution.

That is definitely a problem for me. I have started running in the past,
usually lasting at most 4 months as each time with my left hip progressively
gets more painful....maybe some ITB problem? This time round I have found
that twice a day 'lunge' stretches seems to be keeping this problem at bay.

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Doug

Always good to hear success stories.
Congratulations
"Doug Mitchell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just a small success story...so far.

After being a healthy but sedentary adult (age 44) I began walking/jogging
3
months back. Last day I was able to jog 5 km in 0 degrees F in under 29
minutes. Importantly no injuries have developed. I go about 3 X per week;
it
is still a bit of a hard go but after each run it does feel like I have
done
something important for myself. But heck you guys and girls know this
already.

--
D. Mitchell

Stretching always does it for me, they say there have been studies that
prove it is not needed to stay healthy, but I swear that if I stretch
15 minutes after each run, I could run everyday till I am old and grey.

You don't like the heat? I think the hot-hot summer is my favorite
time to run, with the humidity. It feels like sucha catharsis. You
come back totally purged, I love it.

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but I swear that if I stretch
15 minutes after each run, I could run everyday till I am old and grey.

The key words here are"after runs".

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You don't like the heat? I think the hot-hot summer is my favorite
time to run, with the humidity. It feels like sucha catharsis. You
come back totally purged, I love it.

But you do do a faster run in cooler weather right?

I find the heat is so draining.

If it wasnt for excessive windchill and sometimes poor footing I would so
rather run in cold to very cold weather.

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Doug