It’s Time For A Shower!
Over the past few months my back has been hurting quite a bit. My legs have also been swelling up, so I went to see the doctor.
He told me I have sciatica, which is really an ambiguous term. He told me however that I am not allowed to run.
But the guy did not even take my blood pressure on my visit, so I am not sure I trust his advice. After all I have heard that exercise helps when you have certain kinds of pain.
However, my back has been feeling pretty fine lately, perhaps a little stiff but no pain. So today I decided to give it a go. I went pretty easy doing my warm up and in between walks I took pretty slow.
I did 1.95 miles (around 3kms) or so my treadmill tells me. Not to bad for the first time running in a few months.
I warm up with a five-minute walk and then do intervals of 30 seconds running, and 4.5 minute walks. After the first run I thought I would not be able to complete the 7 cycles because I thought I was going to die. I was even having trouble walking at this point.
There was a little voice inside me however that was saying: Just finish this walk and do one more run then you can quit. So I kept on going, I finished the second run and figured that I at least needed to do the next walk as a cool down. When the walk was over though, I found myself saying well just one more run.
Eventually I had convinced myself to do enough runs, that I was halfway done the program. So I decided to keep on running, and before I knew it I was feeling good and wanted to keep on running.
I always feel great after a good run, even if it is only 30 seconds at a time. The trick is remembering that after a break and being able to do it again….we’ll see what Monday brings!
And now it’s time for a shower
