Distance: 3.80 km
Time: 22:37
I decided a quick jog this morning would be best, as I still plan to run home from work two days this week.
I’m trying to overcome my hill dread, a fear that usually comes upon me on a familiar path when I know a hill is about to come up. I’m more capable of dealing with these hills than I used to be when I started running, but something inside me still shudders at the memory of trudging along the hard parts, panting and sweating and hurting. Apart from somehow giving myself amnesia so I don’t remember the hills the way they used to be, I don’t know how else to deal with them apart from going up them again and again, and hoping the repetition will become positive reinforcement. I know I can make it up these hills. I just have to turn my music up and drown out the world and try not to focus on the hill. Head up, shoulders back, keeping my cadence up even if my stride length goes down.
Actually, what I’m really curious about at the moment is beep tests. When I was applying for the armed forces I couldn’t manage to meet the basic Navy requirement because I was so unfit. Now, I wonder what result I would be capable of achieving. Surely I’d do better now. Not just because I have distance work behind me, because that doesn’t really help. I wonder if there’s somewhere around town I could go and do a beep test. Just out of curiosity.
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