For my 4th run, Mother Nature decided to get in on the act and have a torrential downpour on Monday. Now I know that die-hard runners relish this sort of weather, and will run in a hurricane because they can. Me? Not so much.
My original plan was to go to the gym and run around the basketball court, but since there is usually a cadre of out-of-work Hollywood types having a pick-up game at any given moment, I decided against it. Well, it was that, and the fact that it would mean making an extra trip in the car, in the rain.
My friend pointed out that this early in the program, you are really doing cardio conditioning as much as you are practicing running, so some coordinated aerobic/plyometric exercise would do just as well.
I hooked my phone up to the stereo and did intervals of "high knees", jump rope, and jumping jacks for the prescribed 90 sec. (up from last week) and marched around the house or did the twistboard during the 2 minutes of walking. I tell you, 30 seconds doesn't seem like that much more on paper, but when you are talking sustained movement, it adds up. I just wanted to stop. When the lovely voice would prompt me "Only 45 seconds more!" I would snarl "Only??!!! Only???". But I didn't stop, and that's what it's all about.
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