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My 5k run was slow today and involved a lot of walking to keep below my 153bpm recovery ceiling.

Yet more ego adjustment.

This reminds me a lot of when I started running for the first time. I’d read Hal Higdon’s Beginner’s Running Guide while on holiday in Queenstown, NZ and that got me psyched to get started, unfortunately I was a pack-a-day smoker so starting out was slow going. That book advised me to walk a bit then run a bit then walk a bit… that was pretty good advice and within a couple of weeks I was running 30 minutes continuously.

Anyway, top tip for people starting out… run early in the morning or late at night when it is dark and there are fewer people about to point and laugh

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm by Tim and is filed under Fitness, Heart Rate Training, Running. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.