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Workout Thread 5? (pg. 12)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Running is something you have to make exciting. If you trot around doing 10+ minute miles or (worse) use a treadmill in a gym, don't be surprised when the fabled "runner's high" fails to materialise. I personally treat running as a personal challenge, something I enforce with a simple rule: I can never run less distance than previously. I must always run as far as my previous longest distance. This means running is constantly imbued with a sense of challenge and achievement - the goal is always to break your previous best. Running less distance than my previous best is only acceptable if I beat my previous best time, or if the route is notably more punishing in terms of elevation. The accomplishment of breaking a previous record gives me a feel-good rush. I also plan my routes so they end with a final sprint, where I can just go all-out no matter how exhausted. This explosive end to a run is guaranteed to leave me with my heart thumping and adrenaline coursing, rather than an insipid stumble across the finishing line. |
Oh, but I do have that Nike+ thingy that always makes me want to run faster/farther than the previous time. However, it's hard to ignore the fact that unless I'm running in the rain (the one exception I make because rain is awesome), I'm sweaty, stinky, and doing something as exciting as living the life of a hamster.
The best I can come up with is pretend there are zombies running after me... which isn't nearly as exciting as actually having zombies running after me. Hell, even watching a zombie film gives me a more thorough adrenaline rush!
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The second half of your post is clearly just provocative nonsense. |
Actually, I know I'm just an untalented amateur compared to some of your fellow countrymen, such as Charlie Brooker, but I'm pretty sure that's called humour :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I've never felt ty and hungover after waking up the day after a good workout. |
I wake up when I wake up, so I can't really relate to this either :p |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Running when drunk is a ing nightmare. It's like all your limbs need controlling separately, as though life has become an unpleasantly first person game of QWOP. |
Add in ice and snow and it gets bad really, really, really fast.
Jenny I'd drink you under the table 5 days in a row. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Add in ice and snow and it gets bad really, really, really fast. |
Don't like your snow?! SEND IT TO ME! :mad: :(
Really... it's awfully hot here now. And dry. And hot. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Jenny I'd drink you under the table 5 days in a row. |
Goddamn you're cool. |
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| Intellekshual |
| After reading this thread, I feel like working out. So I'm gonna sit down until this feeling passes. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Don't like your snow?! SEND IT TO ME! :mad: :(
Really... it's awfully hot here now. And dry. And hot. |
I love snow. Its all mine. Mine mine mine! :D |
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| OrangestO |
Worked out for the first time in three months.
I must say, it feels great.
It's a bit discouraging "starting over," but I'm motivated to make it a habit again and stick with it.
Time for some tuna and sleep. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Oh, but I do have that Nike+ thingy that always makes me want to run faster/farther than the previous time. However, it's hard to ignore the fact that unless I'm running in the rain (the one exception I make because rain is awesome), I'm sweaty, stinky, and doing something as exciting as living the life of a hamster. |
I'm not sure why you keep using sweat as a negative. All the most fun things in life involve working up a sweat. And the cold post-run shower is one of the best bits!
I just did the uphill run home from work I mentioned a couple of pages back, and found it surprisingly easy, to the point I was so elated when I came to the turning for my street that I carried on up the hill for another quarter-mile so I could extend the run and sprint back down to a particularly banging track. If that doesn't convince you that running makes me feel awesome, I'm not sure what will. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'm not sure why you keep using sweat as a negative. All the most fun things in life involve working up a sweat. And the cold post-run shower is one of the best bits!
I just did the uphill run home from work I mentioned a couple of pages back, and found it surprisingly easy, to the point I was so elated when I came to the turning for my street that I carried on up the hill for another quarter-mile so I could extend the run and sprint back down to a particularly banging track. If that doesn't convince you that running makes me feel awesome, I'm not sure what will. |
Haha, it's not that I'm not convinced - I actually believe you if you say so (my initial disbelief being more of a conversation starter than a reluctant scepticism, because I really can't relate to what you say - including the bit about cold showers, as I just can't take a shower without turning the whole bathroom into a Finnish sauna, to the point I can't see myself in the foggy mirror). It's just like when someone tells you they can tell two apparently identical shades of the same colour apart, and you didn't even think it was possible until they mentioned it. It may well be true, I give you that, but this is all really foreign to me... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Of course I would never normally take a cold shower. As winter descends on my miserable little island abode, even turning my shower up to maximum death-ray setting just isn't warm enough. However, when you've just finished a run, you're dripping in sweat and are tearing off every item of clothing to cool yourself, jumping straight into a cold shower is an exhilirating experience.
Although a thought occurs... perhaps our discrepency comes from the different climates we inhabit? Running in the rare glimpses of blazing summer England has to offer is a hellish experience, and I can only imagine how hot it is at all times in a country cloaked in rainforest. You say you like running in the rain. In England, we just call that "running". |
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| Joss Weatherby |
I hate running in super hot weather, when you get done and you've literally sweated out every drop of hydration in your body, and as you cool down you get that horrible dehydration headache right in the center of your forehead... And all around you, all you can imagine is fresh cool clear mountain streams that you want to jump in and drink out of... :wtf:
Actually its pretty nice as long as you aren't miles from where you started (I did that one 4th of july on a bike ride... man that sucked ass!) |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You say you like running in the rain. In England, we just call that "running". |
:stongue:
Your thought makes a lot of sense (although I do have to point out that I live in the Brazilian highlands, at least 10 hours from the nearest rainforest, which only makes things worse if you consider how dry this place looks throughout most of the year). But I believe there's more to it: The reason why I like to lift more than I like to jog, for instance, is because I could well be the poster child for productive ADHD. I lift while I listen to audiobooks/lectures/podcasts/anything not related to weight lifting, whereas my performance plummets when I jog unless I listen to music (preferably between 140 and 150 BPM, so I can sync my steps with the beat and keep the pace). And my body doesn't seem to appreciate the dry weather either (there was a thread about a potential "asthma" I didn't have a while back, and I found out my nose is not really well adapted for this climate).
I don't know how well-focused you are (you come across as someone who can focus quite well on whatever it is you're doing), so this could be yet another reason why I can't relate. |
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