Second chances

I never thought writing an entry in my training log could be so exhilarating, but let me tell you, I haven’t done anything this exciting in a long time.

To the average runner, 15 minutes of walking on the treadmill split up by two one-minute jogging segments would hardly be worth reporting, but for me, it was like writing about finishing my first marathon.

I’m a pretty negative person overall; I always look for the pitfalls first and I joke with a friend that she’s the eternal optimist and I the eternal pessimist – both of us to a fault, though. But I decided while on the treadmill today, I would use this injury in a positive way to improve my running and hopefully avoid a similar plight in future. I found today that things felt a lot better when I straightened-up, reduced my stride length, and kept things slow. If you read any running-related material at all, these three things are preached with great consistency.
Maybe this time, I’ll pay more attention; the pessimist in me doubts it, though.