jog

Right. Truth is: I completely forgot about having signed up to 43 things. Well, there was a weekly reminder about “Practice zazen daily” which kept pestering me week after week and I couldn’t apparently cancel. But today I logged in and found that there were several other items in my list (jogging being – obviously – one of them). Well, to cut things short: I did (run) and for a long time as well. I kept running on a weekly basis for almost a full year. I did not realized fully until now. I began to run on Spring of 2008 – I believe it was May. I used to live near the biggest park in Rome (Villa Borghese) back then. From my house it was just 10 minutes’ walk to the park. Last fall I even bought I cardio watch which came with a gps to monitor my progresses. Last december I had to move to a new place and – due to winter season and the commuting journey to work being longer – I began run less frequently until I stopped altogether last March.
Now I’d like to begin again I run 20 minutes for a test 2 weeks ago. It seems I even found a running pal (which is great). Anyway, here’s my running diary: so far I managed to sum up 45 session and run 132 km for a total of 21:01 hours of running. Not bad, isnt’it?

I’ve jogged before, it’s fun to do it with a friend, but it’s great alone as well. Secret is start slowly and when I say slowly I really mean SLOWLY. A good first week program would be jog 1 minute, walk 3 minute, repeat 3 more times. Do it three times a week. Second week, jog 1 minute, walk two minutes, repeat 5 more times…and so on.
There are plenty of such programs to be found on the web.
Anyway, this week I went jogging twice and I’m going out again in a few minutes… It felt great! I can’t wait.