Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
Thanks Zoom, I wasn't thinking. It felt better to run faster than slower so I did...that makes a lot of sense though. My body isn't used to running and I DO tend to, ahem, overdo things
This is a hard mentality to beat. When I ran in high school, I consistently trained at a sub-seven minute pace and competed in the 800 meters at around 2:25 to 2:30. Not great, but for a freshman, not bad. After a cross country season the following year, I had a series of injuries and finally quit. I tried picking running up repeatedly from there but I always gravitated to my old pace, a pace I simply could not maintain on any level. So I would grow frustrated and quit. It wasn't until I finally forced myself to slow down and follow a couch to 5k program, that I finally got over the hump. I still kind of suck, partly because my heart's not totally in it, but I can at least say that I run.