Running Diary – 4
Yesterday I ran on the Stanford campus. I had actually intended to run on the dish area, but I made the BIG mistake of taking central expressway. I arrived well after the dish area had closed, so I just decided to run on the campus. It has anyways been quite a while since I used to run there.
I had a discussion with my good friend Helen(self-proclaimed ex-athlete) about my getting tired during runs. She suggested it might be a dehydration problem. But I drink a lot of water all day and make N trips to the loo at work. So dehydration it can’t be. Perhaps, she suggested, it is an endurance problem. After all, running on hills is brutal compared to plains.
Well I ran about halfway on the campus drive loop and got tired again. So I got an idea. After resting for a minute, I started a 240 step sprint. I didn’t really feel any lack of energy in sprinting. I jogged for 240 steps after the sprint and repeated this 5 times. By the end of which I was thoroughly tired with my energy well spent. So my body was just lying to me about being tired?
I suspect that is the case here. Sometimes you just need to put your foot on the gas I think. Alternate sprints and jogs are anyways a good exercising technique that I saw on some marathon training website. I think doing that on a hill might be even more fun..
Meanwhile I have gotten serious about getting myself a heart rate monitor. It looks like a really useful device to optimally train for a long run. But the difficult question is, which one to buy? Choice always makes life tough, doesn’t it?
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