Exercise note

[javasaurus]

I'm not the healthiest of individuals, but I am working on getting better. I count calories, I take the stairs, and my parking lot is a quarter-mile from my office. I eat my veggies and drink lots of water. I also drink too much coffee, and can be tempted by hot blueberry cobbler. A la mode. But I digress.

Until recently I haven't gotten adequate exercise. So in mid-June I started walking two to four times per week. Initially my path was about a three-fourths of a mile, which I gradually built up to 2.8 miles. (I've got a little map showing miles between streets in my neighborhood).

Then I decided to shift to jogging (that was late July). I even bought appropriate shoes. This meant dropping the path back to 1.8 miles, but I was jogging about 20% of it. You'd think the legs, or lungs, or heart would be the first to complain, but it was actually the "love-handles" -- I guess being jounced against the ribs caused some irritation.

As of yesterday, I was up to 80% of the trip as jogging, and I hope to get that to all jogging by week's end, then work up the mileage from there.

Comments

[dawntreader]

everyone has one reminder somewhere on their body to gauge when they haven't been exercising enough. it's not fun. but it does go away eventually.

congrats on taking on the miles. :D

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

The bouncy love-handle irritation was mostly the first few days -- then the legs and lungs took over with the complaints!

But it's good for me, and I have enough experience to know my limits. I'm just out of practice!