Running: the love hate relationship

I'm not a huge fan of running. I'm a massive fan of sprinting. However, I do run every now and then, as well as doing sprint intervals.

Last time I ran was with my girlfriend, 10k, was a little challenging but I did it, in bad shoes and not so perfect clothing. So, yesterday night I decided to test what I could do, and went for a nice long run with a buddy. Didn't map it first, just ran. Went for a little while, no actual 'breaks' except once to pee. Came home, mapped it on mapmyrun.com and turned out to be 8km.

My knees hurt a little but that was it. Shins were dull at the beginning, even though I warmed up thoroughly.

Serge and I decided to pull 10k runs every other week. So Tuesday night will now be 10k night. As much as I don't necessarily like running, I find it fun to run long distances for the sake of cardio... Its nice to sometimes get off the elliptical or bicycle at home or the gym, and actually be outside for a change. I won't find it much of an accomplishment until I'm running 40k or 50k casually, so I'm going to start bumping up distance by 5k or so every other week. Let's see how it goes !!!
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