Today’s run was a lot harder than I thought it should have been.  I’m not sure if it is because I’ve gotten fatter and had to carry more weight, or that I didn’t have enough energy, or that the air was thinner.  I guess the best thing to do is to run again on monday.

Today I ran my first mile in my marathon training. I walked for 7 minutes, ran for 15, and walked for another 7, so the whole thing took me about a half an hour. I guess a mile in 15 minutes doesn’t seem very good. I wasn’t going for speed, nor was I going for distance, I was going for time. My main goal was to get my muscles used to moving and my heart use to beating. Another couple weeks of easy running like this and I should be able to actually run for speed or distance (but the speeds or distances still probably won’t be impressive).

It felt good to run though. The oxygen in Oregon is nice. My favorite part of a run is the last one or two hundred feet where I sprint as fast as I can go until a certain point which I’ve picked out to be the end.