Rough Night

Oh man, my body is aching all over--maybe I've gone too hard too fast. It's frustrating not to do it that way though. I was raised to think that if you weren't about to pass out from exhaustion, you weren't working hard enough. It's not that extreme, but an athletic work ethic is very important where I come from.

My feet are singing to me today--I know its' because I bruised them up a little running in poor shoes. I'm going to go to a shoe store this week and get fixed up. My hips aren't too happy with me right now, and my left knee shoots a pain up my leg to let me know it's still there. It gets jealous if I get too happy about the state of my hips.

I think I might have to hit the bikes tonight. That's too bad, because I really would rather run. I'm starting to enjoy running a lot now that I can see progress. It felt really awesome to run around the rec track last night and realize that I had just run a mile no problem. I would have been ready to die last semester. Naturally that's due to some physiological changes, but psychologically I feel a lot more purpose-driven in my running. Combined with the fact that with PRACTICE I feel I have a much better running technique, and know how hard to push myself to burn X amount of calories, I am certainly getting better at running.

I'm curious about how much I weigh. Also, I found out how extremely extremely important it is to be hydrated like all the time.

Okay, I'm starving,
have fun.

--matt

P.S. here's a cool fact: it really is harder to run in the grass than on the street! The grass absorbs your body's impact but there is a lot occuring biomechanically in order for you to compensate--if my physics are remotely correct, it's like this: you're putting force into an absorbent surface. In a street, the force is pushed right back at you: the energy to direct the leg back skyward is immediately bounced back--with grass or sand, you compensate.

In Nike and other shoe-company labs, the aim is to find a shoe with the perfect balance of absorption and comfort. That's probably why I feel slower in extremly soft/comfy shoes. Are court shoes more or less absorbant than running shoes? This is the wrong blog for that question, but it matters to my training, so we'll see where it goes.

k, bye bye