Venting

Running hurts. 😛 After the shoulder-swimming thing, I started running a little.  It’s not fun at all.  Sometimes I feel like I can run forever without any problems. Other times it takes me four steps before I start cramping up.  My legs always hurt afterwards.  I’m terrible at pacing myself.  It hurts more to jog than to run.  I can’t go more than a mile and a half without having to walk.  My throat starts burning because of how I breathe.  Short of slowing down to a walk, NOTHING will make the cramps go away. It gets super boring after the first three laps.  The music selection at the Y does not help with the boredom.  I sweat like a pig. RUNNING STINKS!!!!

Swimming is the ultimate sport.  A good swim feels like slicing through warm, soft butter.  All my sweat is washed away.  It’s relaxing and repetitive and refreshing. It doesn’t jar my bones every time I move.  I usually get a killer workout. It’s not as boring and I don’t know why. I don’t cramp up. Breathing is easy and controlled. I know how to pace myself in the water.  It never hurts as much as running. Also, being underwater is so much cooler than running around a short track eight million times. Swimming is just plain awesome. I would do it every single day if I could. However, our Y doesn’t have an indoor pool yet and I’m still staying off of my shoulder and I’m going to need to do something all winter long and I hit a plateau on the elliptical and the elliptical is boring anyway and running is something that you can do competitively which I like and sometimes when I’m running it feels like I’m running super fast on a cloud and I could run forever and that feeling is really, really good, almost as good as swimming like butter. So running it is.

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