Melissa and I went down to Gainesville's Depot Park this morning for their Parkrun...or at least my attempt to substantially lengthen my training session walk there. Today I doubled my distance walked, from a .7-mile lap to two laps totaling 1.55 miles. It took me 34 minutes in all, and that's all right since I am in no way concerned about how fast I go. You see, during this half of a Parkrun I listened to my Alachua Public Library Libby audiobook app containing the book I just checked out: Slow AF Run Club by Martinus Evans. His message is informative, humorous and inspirational...in other words, very useful! Next week I'll try to 'up' it to three laps, and there you have it: a definite feeling of progress doing this resistance walk and letting my daily, consistent training efforts compound in their positive effects on my fitness. Back in 2007 I could barely run around my home block, the road surface feeling way too rough for my feet. But in '08 I managed a solid eight-mile neighborhood training run that I have yet to duplicate (or want to). My effort today wasn't scanned or posted, and I'm not doing any of this for any reason beyond personal betterment. I do want to get to Martinus's level of running softly and slowly...all I care about is covering the distance. Now we're left with the rest of Saturday, along with any more walk/run training i might see fit to do. So after this encouraging effort, I intend to continue keeping up with the consistency, resistance and discomfort (and rest & recovery) and let the fitness compound...
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