I skipped my long distance run today. I blame my company’s fitness program.
I have made no secret of my running habit. I regularly go out and do half-marathon distances as training.
My new company will give me extra benefits if I have an active lifestyle. Cool! Their measurement of an active lifestyle is exercising for twenty minutes, three times a week.
Sounds reasonable?
When I do my running, I do forty minutes on Wednesdays and around two plus hours on Sunday mornings.
That is only twice a week. So I don’t qualify.
To “cheat” the system I’ve been trying to run on Friday evenings. Twenty minutes on a treadmill, doing a light run. Usually this is late, after eleven o’clock at least. This is because there are the Friday Feasts. On a typical night Rem cooks a delicious light meal. But last Friday it was potluck night which gave us fried pork, a casserole and a chicken pot pie. Not quite so light.
Apparently this weighed a lot in my stomach so the run felt a lot harder than usual. That and I didn’t do a proper warm up before the run. (Remember, it is supposed to be light.)
So all yesterday my right leg felt gimpy.
I do not want to seriously injure myself, so I am listening to my body. Which is a weird feeling.
So the active lifestyle program made me do twenty minutes of exercise I didn’t want to do, which made me unable to do the 29km run I wanted to do.