ouch

did my first 4-mile run today.

well, maybe 2.75 miles of running and 1.25 miles of walking. but it added up to 4 miles and i managed about 11 minutes per mile.

i probably would have done better had i not deadlifted the day before, and not slept well for 3 nights, and not gone on a short hill sprint on saturday and and and...

i used to be a weightlifting specialist. not "specialist" in the sense that i was any good at it, but "specialist" in the sense that it was my primary sports activity and i let nothing interfere with its progress.

that's all changed now.

my primary sports activity is now "do as much as possible and rest when i'm dead". i thought, when i was done, that i was too tired to do anything tomorrow, but i will probably change my mind by morning.

i may be a "cross trainer" now, though i never really understood what that meant.

the unfortunate truth, though, is that being a generalist means i won't make much progress in any particular activity. you know, it's like when your wizard reaches level 9 and you decide to dual-class to a wizard/cleric. your character will never be a powerful wizard or a powerful cleric. i'll never be a great lifter and a great runner and a great hiker and a great biker and skater and coder all at once. but i can be pretty good at all of them, or good enough at most of them.

it's frustrating, though, to know that i *should* rest, but dammit, I *want* to run or lift or bike or slide up a hill -- and what am i supposed to do with this extra energy if not use it?

so i use it and then have less of it the next day. oh well.

now that i've done 4 i have no excuse to do less. oh well again.