The progresses I have been made : 2 The day I learned to run slowly
Just now I exercised with jumping rope. With about 250 repetitions, I became breathless and needed a brake. During the break, I jogged slowly around the entrance of my house until my breath settled. Then I did another 250 repetitions of jumps. After finished, I jogged slowly again for a few minutes.
When I was jogging I remembered that it wasn't until I was around 20 years old that I was consciously able to run slowly.
In a strict sense, I jogged slowly daily until then as a daily routine, the intervals between classes while most of classmates was enjoying soccer, but I had thought it was something other than running - I had thought that running slowly meant running not seriously, especially when I was in elementary school, junior high school, and high school. I had never thought that running slowly and long help running faster for a long time, and hadn't really believed that grow my stamina.
Whenever I participated in a road race when I was a teenager, I ran with a speed at which I run 100 meters, and become tired before 1 kilometer and then begin to walk, and when I came near the goal, I ran fast again.
When I was 21 years old, I was at home in Iwate prefecture, because of burnout from my university work. I didn't have much to do, so I wanted to make some achievement. Running a long distance was a suitable target, because it didn't require much extra equipments. Until then I didn't like run a long distance because I was easily to become breathless.
One day, I decided that I go as far as possible at a speed I won't be breathless, and I found that I easily ran 10 kilometers in 56 minutes. I even felt that I would be able to run much further, and also found that running at this pace was much comfortable and even fun, and I was kind of like running a long distance if I didn't run too fast.
After then, I really acquire the habit of running slowly and long regularly.
Before I get a job at my current workplace, I easily run at that pace, but after I come to work regularly, jogging regularly has a certain effect on my mind and when I'm tired from exercises, I often become short-tempered. Because of aging and need of self-control on my mind, now I'm not able to exercise at the pace when I was in 20s, but still, learning to run slowly at the age of 21 was a milestone event in which I learned pace-control, one of the most fundamental elements of self-control.
When I was jogging I remembered that it wasn't until I was around 20 years old that I was consciously able to run slowly.
In a strict sense, I jogged slowly daily until then as a daily routine, the intervals between classes while most of classmates was enjoying soccer, but I had thought it was something other than running - I had thought that running slowly meant running not seriously, especially when I was in elementary school, junior high school, and high school. I had never thought that running slowly and long help running faster for a long time, and hadn't really believed that grow my stamina.
Whenever I participated in a road race when I was a teenager, I ran with a speed at which I run 100 meters, and become tired before 1 kilometer and then begin to walk, and when I came near the goal, I ran fast again.
When I was 21 years old, I was at home in Iwate prefecture, because of burnout from my university work. I didn't have much to do, so I wanted to make some achievement. Running a long distance was a suitable target, because it didn't require much extra equipments. Until then I didn't like run a long distance because I was easily to become breathless.
One day, I decided that I go as far as possible at a speed I won't be breathless, and I found that I easily ran 10 kilometers in 56 minutes. I even felt that I would be able to run much further, and also found that running at this pace was much comfortable and even fun, and I was kind of like running a long distance if I didn't run too fast.
After then, I really acquire the habit of running slowly and long regularly.
Before I get a job at my current workplace, I easily run at that pace, but after I come to work regularly, jogging regularly has a certain effect on my mind and when I'm tired from exercises, I often become short-tempered. Because of aging and need of self-control on my mind, now I'm not able to exercise at the pace when I was in 20s, but still, learning to run slowly at the age of 21 was a milestone event in which I learned pace-control, one of the most fundamental elements of self-control.
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