Monday, March 30, 2020

140 miles of madness (days 13 and 14 running viral)

Today I'm not running. But I did run yesterday and I haven't posted that yet.  I've included it in this cumulative traces map that includes over 140 miles of running over the first 14 days:



I've run Owlsmoor twice but otherwise there are only a few repetitions, mostly to do with getting to the start and end points of my near-daily viral runs.

Saturday was a bit of a crisis day for me and I was feeling a bit depressed. But it did result in one of my more creative efforts (if I do say so myself: see day 12).

What I realised through my crisis is that 1. having a bit of a downer day need not stop one from running (nor from posting) and that 2. it's good to get those down days out of the way and out of your system because they're going to happen.

Now my post from last time was a kind of free-association list related to the various 'oddly motivated' methods that I'm trying out, and it included references going back to the 1850s; cinematic and science fictional references; literary mentions; and completely subjective terminology that I'd just made up.

I'm quite happy with my little list (say hello to my little friend, the list!), but I'm sorry if my (<3) readers felt a bit short changed.

3. I realised that part of my task here is to attempt to exhaust not only the actual physical space of Bracknell, but also to exhaust the conceptual space of various methods related to being an Artist-as-Cartographer.  4. I realised it's also exhausting.

So what I did today was give myself a rest day (from running), and I did a workout instead, one the Shona Vertue Method Advanced workouts. Here's what I did:

15 Kettlebell Goblet Pause Squat x 3
10 Close Grip Push-up x 3
15 Bent Arm Reverse Kettlebell Lunge x 3
15 Lunge Stance Single Arm Row x 3
15 Kettlebell Single Leg Glute Bridge x 3
15 Side Lying Hip Raise x 3
15 Reverse Crunch x 3
15 Kettlebell Crunch x 3
15 Table Top Rocks x 3
20 Mountain Climbers (diagonal)
20 Bicycle Crunches

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