Now that I've been running at either close to or more than an hour, I am starting to feel some warning signs. At the very end of these runs, I feel very mild pain, usually in either one foot or the other.
My sense is that this is just my feet feeling the strain of the run, that I am at the furthest extent I can go in a single run. This is strain, not injury, but it is the warning not to push myself beyond an hour. I think that at least until I lose more weight, a run of more than an hour could get me injured.
This morning I planned on running a mile with the boys after my solitary run. So, instead of running a full hour and then a mile with them, I cut my run to four miles, planning to run my last mile with them.
We started off well, but after about a quarter mile, Liam complained of pain in his side. So, we rested, and I had him focus on his breathing until the pain went away. I was trying to teach him a technique called "belly breathing" in which you make your stomach go out as you breathe in. It is the opposite of what you usually do, and it often relieves the pain of stitches.
But it is tricky for a 7-year-old to figure out how to do that. I don't think he really caught on to how to do it.
The pain went away, but came back as soon as we started running again. So, I had him stop for the day. You need to listen to the warnings you get from pain, especially when you are 7.
But in the meantime, Jack ran the mile route in 13:37. He seemed to like it much better this time.
So, Friday I will run a full hour, and Saturday I will just try to do a mile run with the boys. Jack and I may go for a bike ride after that.
Oh, my weight has dropped a little. According to the scale, my BMI is down to 34.5. If I can lose one more half pound and keep it dropping for another week, I will start posting my weight in pounds.
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