Marathon Training log 5

So it was the fifth day in training. This by far was the toughest day. I was tired, had a headache and really appeared to be in a bad mood. But then I had earlier seen a man running, and that kind of made me jealous, as it always does, so I decided that I will run. And on top of that I had the opportunity to wear all of the new gear that I had recently bought from Scheels. And so I took out the gear and it felt nice to wear all that. By the time I was ready to run, I was all excited and ready to go. So now, I get out to run, expecting that I will be freezing to death. But to my surprise I am very comfortable and very very warm. It was an exhilarating experience to run. It was wet, it was cold and best of all it was raining. And I did not feel a thing!! I was so wrapped up in my own thoughts and my own pleasure of the run, that I did not notice anything. I even ran faster than before.

At the same time I have been using the GTD software and it has been helping me get things done. Since I have the list of things to do, it makes it easier to not only remember but I have this urge inside of me where I actually want to make sure that I complete it. It gives me that sense of completion and that sense of feeling that I am accomplishing things bit by bit. I did end up with many tasks that I had felt that I would do today, but could not even get around to doing them. But in the end when I did look at the number of things that I had accomplished, it give a sense of high. The similar high that I get from long distance running. I think this is something that I will be doing for years to come and enjoy it more and more. I never have enjoyed it so much and the sense of accomplishment is amazing. It is good to get that feeling that I am able to do and complete something that most people only dream and aspire to complete. I think that when it will be July 26th it will be a different day in my life and I am looking forward to that day to come.

Interestingly enough, I also believe that the winter wear that I bought for running in the cold, is also helping me to run more efficiently and with less pain/injury. For some weird reason I think it also helping with the circulation of blood in my muscles and in my peripheries. I will have to look into that. And if that is the case, then it will be a very good experience to try that even during the times when it is not so cold to run. I guess I will only find out when one day I run without all that gear on and then one day run with all of that gear on. Running is another experiment that I did not envision myself to be doing.

Then there are these things that I think about when I am running. Like right now we only use the heart rate and the strides (time/pace/distance) to assist the runner in his or her performance. Now what if we had these sensors, which were either built into the clothes that we wear or they are fine small needles that we stick into different parts of our body as sensors. And the above, senses various things: sweat production rate, the amount of lactic acid built up in the muscles (better still the differential amount of lactic acid built up in different muscle groups of the body), the amount of glucose being used in different parts, how much there is expression of certain genes/nuclear receptor or mediators, and finally the mitochondrial activity and/or it's by products. And then we customize it per person and that way we can analyze what kind and type of athlete that person is.