Date: 2003-09-06 01:22 am (UTC)
If you are only getting up in the 120 region it could be that your ticker is doing just fine and doesn't need to work too hard! When I started I was 15 stone -- that was a lot of weight to pull around and my heart was up in the 155 region at 8hm/h. 10 or so weeks later I am 13.5 stone (my target is 12 by December), and I am a lot more in tone already so I look a lot lighter already, my heart is in the 133 region during a 5K run at 13-13.5Km/h. Less weight, heart is better exercised, actually thinking about what I need to eat etc... (mentioned on my LJ ad-nauseum)

I love running on the treadmill. Quality thinking time. Those inner dialogues are very important because I believe it's part of the deeper self reaching out to the higher self outside of dreamtime -- "hey bud, this is repetitive, you can take a back seat for a while, I have something I want to say..."

I had a wonderful daydream the other day which concerned a deer guide following me, egging me on. "You're not running away from anything anymore, you're running towards something..." and that caused me to sprint a little and end my 5K with more of a sense of triumphalism rather than ache. Those daydreams (and I have many) are essential for me, its my body having a dialogue, thanking me for using it a bit more thoughtfully other than just as a movable shell for my brain, ears and mouth.

I wished I had discovered exercise 10 years ago but I'm there now. At 39 I'd say I found it just in time... Its formed the basis for other internal changes.

BTW if it gets to be a bit too easy rather than upping the speed or using preset programmes can you increase the running angle? A matter of a few degrees can really put the pressure on and it exercises leg muscles in a different way -- I try and vary everything so the body doesn't get stuck in a pattern...

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