Running – Use a Measured Running Path to Gauge Your Progress
Around where I live, there is a certain path that measures exactly 3.2 miles, which translates to 5K, a standard race distance. One day I got into my car and drove around my neighborhood with my eye fixed on the odometer, and that’s how I came up with a path that’s exactly 3.2 miles.
But here is what makes this running route so useful.
There’s a perfect loop in the center of this route that measures exactly 1 mile. And the distance from my home to this loop and then back is another 2.2 miles.
So all I need to do to increase my running distance in increments of 1 miles at a time is to run one more time around the central loop.
For example, 10K is 6.2 miles. So if I want to run 10K, turning around the loop for 4 times and run all the way back home is all I need to do without measuring anything (4 + 2.2 = 6.2 miles).
Once a week I try to run not by the distance but against time since one day I’d like to run the marathon. And my major concern with a marathon is just to finish it, period, and to do it under 5.5 hours, if possible.
So with a marathon, the major challenge is to run non-stop for 5.5 hours – forget the “pace.” Just to finish it would be a great achievement for me. So once a week I try to condition my body to get used to the stress of such long-distance running. So far, the longest I ever ran was 2 hours.
Running is like most other tasks – if you do it regularly without hurting yourself, you get better and better. To have a measured path will help you in gauging your progress considerably.
Ugur Akinci, PhD is a Fortune 500 Senior Technical Writer who loves to share his technical writing tips, tutorials and advice with those who subscribe to his FREE Technical Writing Tips email list at http://www.learntechnicalwriting.com
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