The subtle jumps in
distances take you to 1¾ miles this Tuesday. Quarter-mile steps up might not
seem like much week to week, but they will more than double how far you’ll go
here by August.
The route (with same
start/finish as last week, but begin/end in opposite direction): Take bike path north to 24th
Avenue… Turn left to Amazon trailhead, then follow the one-kilometer loop out
on street side to flagged turn and back on creek side… Return to start on bike
path. My GPS measurement is 1.75 miles.
Weather forecast
continues good for our activity: partly sunny with day’s high of 75.
LESSON 5: Taking Time
Your second most valuable piece of equipment, after shoes is.... no,
not shorts and not T-shirt. You can wear other clothes than those. Your next
most vital item is a timer. Use a watch or smartphone with a stopwatch feature,
and make time your main way of keeping score. Time can make you an instant
winner by telling exactly how fast you ran a distance, and maybe how much you
improved your personal record (“PR,” in runner-talk). Another, more subtle
value of the timer: It lets you use minutes instead of miles as your main
measurement. This has several benefits: freeing you from plotting and measuring
courses, because minutes are the same length anywhere... easing pressure to run
faster, because you can’t make time pass any faster... finishing at the
assigned time limit no matter your pace, which settles naturally into your
comfort zone when you run by time.
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