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Free Workout Mix Download and the First Run

November 19th, 2007 by admin

I’m writing this straight after my first run. I did it and I didn’t stop ’til the end!

I didn’t want to go on the run. It was too damp and too wet underfoot and too…well you know, I was looking for an excuse – especially when I couldn’t find my jogging bottoms and my sports bra had broken! But, I had told myself I would start running, so a running I would go! I armed myself with my ipod playing ‘party basics’ and the necessary poo bags as my dogs were coming with me.

I started jogging slowly for my warm-up – it’s very hard to do warm-up stretches with two mad dogs circling round who are eager to stretch their long legs – and started along the riverbank. After 5 minutes I increased the pace – well a bit, and continued along the path. It wasn’t long before I wanted to stop jogging and start walking, but I didn’t want to tell you I had to resort to a walking pace, so I concentrated on Madonna singing ‘Vogue’ while I ignored my burning lungs, and continued along the path. Even though I haven’t jogged for ages, some of the techniques for running came back to me:

• Breathe out through pursed lips to control the breathing
• Hold arms low and loose to conserve energy

After 10 miles, well, a mile and a half, but it felt like 10 miles! I had finished my run, I even managed a small sprint at the end, which made everything jiggle that shouldn’t jiggle, but no one was around to see! To put my pounding heart back in my chest I went for a walk through the woods for about 10 minutes.

After my run, I remembered: my ipod had a stopwatch facility that I should have used, and there are websites that enable you to download music to suit your pace while jogging. While looking for such sites, I can across BRAND NEW free workout mix: Fit&Run | fitPod. Free music to download that matches the pace of various workouts. I downloaded ‘WakeUpWorkOut’ which has tracks of different beats per minutes – 120 to 139. It’s not my favourite genre as there is a lot of electronic style music, but I’ll give it whirl on my next run. If it helps me to focus on my run, I’ll let you know.