When I woke up this morning my legs were a little sore. Not to the point of painful, just to where I was aware of them. My past running routines have usually been intervals (walk, jog, run) so my body is not necessarily used to locking in at one set pace and running.
Today my plan called for 30 minutes of SS. I am used to strength conditioning though so I did my usual 60 minute workout. For warm up i did 10 minutes on the elliptical while practicing different running breathing techniques. Last night I was reading more on running and having a breathing pattern seemed to help many people (I have known about this before but have not put it much into practice.) The best pattern for me would either be 2:2 or 3:3 (take two steps breathe in through nose, take two steps breath out through mouth and 3:3 is doing three steps). I worked most body regions from the waist up to balance out what I did yesterday, so bis, tris, shoulders, chest and abs. After my workout I took a little more time to stretch out my legs and arms than I usually do. It is so easy to forget to slow down after a work out and to take the time to stretch.
A fun idea that others have done is when training or just running for fun, they dedicate their run to something. Usually I hear this concept a lot more in yoga but it is also done for running. On my running days I decided that on most runs (not necessarily every single one) I will dedicate my efforts to either a person, an idea, an emotion, whatever is on my mind that day. Whenever something seems difficult, I can redirect my mind to what I dedicated todays run to and hopefully that will help me reach my goal.
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