About 2 months ago, I abandoned my attempts to return to a 6 minute km pace. At nearly 200 lbs and because I have been doing a lot of weight training over the winter, I am simply too heavy to accomplish something that fast and when I try, I burn out rather fast and do not enjoy it. You see, I wont do any exercise if it becomes something I dread doing because this is something that I have learned is important to the normie lifestyle. If I hate just the notion of doing some exercise, I am going to be a lot less likely to do it at all and therefore I keep it in a certain zone where I don't get hurt and also don't fear the next time I have to do it.
This resulted in me adapting the way that I jog so that I am merely out there doing something for an hour of cardio each day.
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not me, but I admire bigger guys or even fat people when they are out there doing their best to improve their lives
On this particular day I had already spent an hour in the gym before even going running, so that was one of my "double days" seeing as how I normally will only do one of the other. It kind of felt good to do both so maybe I will do this more frequently.
I'm pleased with both the overall distance as well as the per km time but my system during the run was to not monitor how fast I was going during the actual run. If i started to feel like I wanted to slow down I would choose some object in the distance, make it to that point, then slow down. I never totally stop moving, when I do slow down I still do a rather fast walk to keep my heart rate up. I did focus on one particular time though, and that was at the start of the run.
I didn't look at this at the start of the run but was pleased when I got home and saw that my plan to keep it light at the beginning instead of going "all out" worked this time. Frequently in the past I have started out much faster than the rest of the run ended up being and this resulted in me being fatigued too early on in the process.
Finishing at a near 8min per km pace is just fine with me, especially when you consider that I had already done weight training for an hour or so right before going.
I would imagine that eventually I will get faster just by repetition, but I am not really counting on that. I have come to terms with this pace if I end up being a permanent 8 min / km runner. The race is only against yourself!
i really let myself go in my 30's and they say that this is the worst time to do that. I think it is the "normal" time to do that. Now I am in my 40's and I am stronger than I have ever been in my life, even if I am a bit slower. If I can do it, so can you.