Objective: General aerobic Weather: 60ish F, mostly cloudy, breezy. Very pretty sunrise. Kept the pace about midway between MP and "easy," 10:00-10:15. 15 min. abs and wts.
I was thinking today about hills. I used to walk up all steep hills and struggle on the not-so-steep ones. I don't run that way anymore, but changing was so hard. Walking hills is like an addiction. When I set forth to overcome the "habit," every part of my brain was screaming "walk!" I slowly improved to where I could jog the entire length of the steepest hills around here, but I had slipped into the habit of walking at the top, partly because I was so out of breath and partly as a sort of reward for making it all the way up. So then a new habit had been implanted in my brain. At the top of every hill it screamed "walk!" But now I've conquered that one too, and it was almost as hard as the first addiction. It occurred to me today that if my brain gets so attached to bad running habits, maybe I could attach some good ones. At each hill I tried visualize myself floating up, feeling light and springy. I don't know if this will pay off in any way, but it might be a fun experiment. Later in afternoon: 3 mile hike to Twin Falls with sisters.
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