Day 5. Did a 5k on the flat road. Not even a problem . Been doing nothing but hills.
In the rain? Or is it only raining in Taipei as usual
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Oh that really chaps my hide.
I need to move.
Beautiful view today
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I watched a documentary about this in Netflix a few years ago, and it seems to have disappeared in the meantime:
Oh, and there’s this other doc about it, which I haven’t watched yet but will do so now:
Summed up in one sentence: lunatics go thrashing around the forest for a couple of days looking for books.
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It would be remiss if me not to add this here. Didn’t know they’d made a doc about her.
So I ran until I was physically unable to go faster than walking today, and also last week. Made it to 13km mark last week, felt a lot stronger today, thought I was good for the 16km route I was on, but again I suddenly fizzled out at 14km. I am finding the gains with running don’t come easy!
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I did a longer rougher mountain loop yesterday. Honestly thinking about doing a flat 10k.
The gains are there, but hard to see in training. And I don’t train train, I just exercise hard. 
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Exercise through… as long as you don’t injure yourself and are recovering. Active recovery, low effort. If you only exercise when you’re not sore, beginner old people would never get past the novice stage.
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As an old people myself— testify!
I’m in a swimming group on fb. At least once a month, someone posts something about the mental health benefits of swimming. There’s no denying how, sometimes, exercise is the only thing that keeps some of us sane.
You’re only one run away from a good mood.
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Power walked the lower loop today. 1.5 hours and 8k later— feel pretty good. Next step is to run it.
Then one more lap and I’ll be 12k.
11 months to prepare.
Beigan in my sights.
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Nothing to brag about, but I am getting closer to 10K. The last few kilometers l did run and walk, run and walk. Let’s find out how sore my legs will feel tomorrow.
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I did 19 km on my most recent run, walked the last two kilometers. I was feeling pretty happy about my amazing progress until I did the math on the speed - at three hours for duration I went at the same speed as walking the only difference was that my feet were not in continual contact with the ground and I was absolutely wrecked at the end of it. 
I am going to go back to half the distance and see if I can get the speed up a bit for the next one.
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How’s that even possible? I often pass brisk walkers, and even with my lowest speed I will pass them. So unless you make some breaks in between, you have to run in slomo to achieve that feat. 
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A couple of days ago, I decided to do the 70-30 again, haven’t done it for some time…
It’s first warm up with a couple of km’s slow pace, then run 70 seconds full speed, 30 seconds walking, 70 sec… etc. My plan was to do 10 repetitions, but after 4 I was dead so had to turn it into 50-30 instead with the last ones at 30-70 instead 
I am old
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If you also passed an extremely slow ‘runner’ then that was me 
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