While reading up on triathlon training, I read somewhere that “running is natural for your body” so the run leg would be the easiest leg to complete.
…What a bunch of malarky.
That is to say, if I was in Africa in 10,000 BC as a primitive human being, I would have to say that I would absolutely be a victim of Darwin’s theory and the lion would eat me.
I was just NOT built to run. Almost every time I complete a “run” workout, I sort of feel like I’ve been hit by a steamroller. I have asthma, which is the first problem, so running any more than 30 seconds (especially toward the end of my run workout) usually makes me want to collapse in a sudden heap. It’s HARD. Let’s say that I’m absolutely not looking forward to my first three-minute run tomorrow. It should be interesting. 
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However, I am made to swim. Swimming, I have no problem with. Swimming I could do for ages. Hours. So in that respect, Darwin has it right. I may not out-swim a shark, but I may get less of my leg bitten off than some of the other people on my team.
…I’m being a little morbid with the death-by-animal analogies today, aren’t I?
Anyway, my point is that running is HARD. I am currently trying to complete week three of a Couch-2-5K, a nine week course set to get you off your bum and started running. I’m on week three, as Robert Ullrey (my podcast “coach”), though I did repeat week 2 because I wasn’t feeling up to running three minutes in a row yet. Ninety seconds was hard enough.
But thinking about it, running? That’s nothing. That’s nothing compared to losing all your hair and throwing up on an hourly basis. I mean, I once took medicine that took me to the hospital for throwing up for seven hours straight. It was the most horrible pain I’d ever been in.
I can’t imagine doing that for eight weeks straight.
My mother did.
So running for three minutes? 10K? Does jogging & walking the whole time make me weak? No, it makes me strong. Literally and figuratively!
If I can run three minutes, why can’t I run five? And if not five, why not ten? I may think it’s hard at the moment, but there’s harder.
Malarky? From here on out, my workouts are no malarky allowed.
