Does running get easier!?

[jess9395 5,449]

Yes!!!! It gets easier!!! I was just thinking during my run this morning about halfway through 5 miles that my legs didn't hurt they weren't even tired and I wasn't breathing very heavily!

I started running in January, a month post op. Started VERY slow with couch to 5k (actually I think my app was 5k runner). I could barely run the 10-15 sec run intervals. It was a killer, all the way through the app! And didn't even get up to 5k. Intervals kept me going, 5min run. 1 min walk. Still do them on anything longer than 5 miles.

Another thing that helped me post c25k was to join challenges in Map My Run app and sign up for events. A mile a day streak challenge from Memorial Day to 4th of July shifted my thinking to "its only a mile". Who knew that was possible for me? I didn't even run in PE in HS! I waked at the back of the back gossiping.

I have done a triathlon, two 250 mile marathons where I ran 15-20 miles total over three legs (one in the desert on trails!). I've done countless 5 & 10k's trail and road and won my age group in several, and I finished a half marathon!

Never in my life would I have believed it was possible, but in short YES it gets easier.

[Forsythia 882]

My personal stance on running is that it is useful in regard to the impending zombie apocalypse. I think yes, it gets physically easier to do as you lose weight and there is less stress on your body, but mentally you either enjoy it, or you don't. You've got to get to the point where you enjoy doing it if you want to do it consistently.

As for me, as the zombie apocalypse has yet to happen so I've yet to really do any running. I dabble in jogging here and there but will never really be a serious runner.

[jess9395 5,449]

My personal stance on running is that it is useful in regard to the impending zombie apocalypse. I think yes, it gets physically easier to do as you lose weight and there is less stress on your body, but mentally you either enjoy it, or you don't. You've got to get to the point where you enjoy doing it if you want to do it consistently.

I respectfully disagree on the "you like it or you don't" part. I HATED running as a kid, in my teens, as a young adult, pretty much always. I was never ever a runner. I hated couch to 5k....except for the feeling of accomplishment when I did it. I hated running for the first six months while I was building my base. But I wanted to give it a fair shot because I liked how I felt afterward and I liked what it does for my physical fitness and abilities. I didn't start to like it till about the sixth month... I think sometimes you grow to like it once you can really DO it and not before. So I encourage people to give it a fair shot and try it. And wait to decide if you enjoy it (I wouldn't miss it for the world now) until your body stops being exhausted and sore whenever you attempt it--who enjoys that? It wasn't till it got easier that I began to enjoy it.

[aroundhky 1,174]

Someone start a survey about running and how many fall in the middle.

Love it......

Like it......

Indifferent.....

Don't like it..... MY VOTE (but leaning towards hatred when in it's purest form). Mud runs or obstacle runs I love!

Hate it.......

[amazon 579]

sigh...having trouble posting...

Edited December 17, 2014 by amazon

[amazon 579]

My personal stance on running is that it is useful in regard to the impending zombie apocalypse. I think yes, it gets physically easier to do as you lose weight and there is less stress on your body, but mentally you either enjoy it, or you don't. You've got to get to the point where you enjoy doing it if you want to do it consistently.

As for me, as the zombie apocalypse has yet to happen so I've yet to really do any running. I dabble in jogging here and there but will never really be a serious runner.

LOL. I'm relying on the "double-tap". Someone will always be faster than me

[jess9395 5,449]

What is the double tap?

[amazon 579]

What is the double tap?

From the movie Zombieland. Two shots (bang bang).

Totally not related to my T-Tapp DVDs I have.

[Beni 1,484]

Hello, yes indeed. Running is much easier everyday. Before just walking was a chore.

[jess9395 5,449]

From the movie Zombieland. Two shots (bang bang).

Totally not related to my T-Tapp DVDs I have.

Ahhhh haven't seen it but I hear it's good!

[Healthy_life2 8,324]

I worked into it. I was defiantly not a runner/jogger before surgery. I started with walking. I started jogging on a treadmill in November. On Thanksgiving I did my first 5k. Jogging on the road feels much different. Motivation for me is to Finnish and to push myself to beat my own time. I'm on to a Christmas 10K on December 20th.

[Forsythia 882]

Ahhhh haven't seen it but I hear it's good!

It's hilarious. And Bill Murray makes a cameo as himself pretending to be a zombie. That's worth watching the entire movie. Other than that, I will not spoil it for you!

[nolongerhere 100]

I heard an athlete say that no matter how much they trained it never got easier, they just got faster...

[jess9395 5,449]

It's hilarious. And Bill Murray makes a cameo as himself pretending to be a zombie. That's worth watching the entire movie. Other than that, I will not spoil it for you!

Ok yeah that sounds like it's worth the price of admission all by itself! Will have to rent it!

[Kindle 8,667]

I ran cross country in high school. I was too slow to do well in anything else. I occasionally ran the 400 because running 6-10 miles everyday in practice gave me the stamina to run a measley 400m full speed. But I hated every minute of it. I didn't run at all in college...played softball instead. Then I took up jogging again upon graduation because it's something my boyfriend enjoyed. Again, hated every minute of it. NEVER got that wonderful "runner's high". Whoever came up with that must have been high! After 10 months my work schedule changed and we could no longer do our morning runs.....thank GOD! That was 26 years ago and I've had the good sense to not fool myself into thinking I might ever enjoy running.

And as for the zombie apocalypse, I live at 6500 feet and own guns, so I'm sticking with the first 2 rules....cardio and double tap!