One Buttock Run ???

Yesterday I did a long run. The distance of a long run is considered to be 16 kilometers or longer as well as runs over 90 minutes. The long run is the most important component of the marathon training because it teaches the body to tackle mentally and physically the challenges in completing the 42.195 kilometers.

Normally I like the long run, because for me it’s like meditation. The reason is that you do it approximately one minute slower than the pace that you run during the marathon itself. It is in your personal aerobic zone and you fell like a tiger that is defying the laws of gravity.

You can easily do it on one buttock! The energy is flowing through your body and is taking control of your legs. All this happens during the movement of your body as they sway from side to side. You listen to upbeat music and your brain is going into stand-by mode to refill your environmental-neutral batteries. ;)

But not yesterday!

• After 1 kilometer I realized the my phear rate monitor shows way too high values. A restart of my Garmin Forerunner 305 to do rescan for the wireless hears rate device fixed the problem.
• After 5 kilometers my iPod shuffle turn off—batteries empty. That was it!
• After 12 kilometers, my shoelace was opend. I had the photo of Yori Gagarin in mind when he walked towards to Nikkita Khruschev to formally report about mission’s success and didn’t realize that his one of his shoelace was undone. Well, my mission was not succeeded here!
• After 15 kilometers nordic walkers ask me for the way and involved me for 10 minutes in a stupid discussion. I hate it when something like that happens during I’m in stand-by.
• After 17 kilometers I realized that it’s fall through and through. It was windy and we had 12 degrees Celsius.
• After 20 kilometers I arrived my home. At the end it was a nice run, I forgot all nerving incidents, drunk almost 1.5 liter water, put my legs in ice water, had a shower and a slept for two hours.

You can find a satellite image and the altitude profile below. The detailed information is on my GPSies.com account where you can find this track, too.

Track

Altitude Profile

… just happy

During sport I love to hear music. I put the headphones in my iPod and my ears and select Shuffle Songs. To get song in random order is one my most used play options, because it gives me the change to get rid of the organized, scheduled and planed working days. It brings randomness and chaos in my life, which I love! I think this is because randomness and chaos is the nature of everything. ;-)

But that is not the story I want to tell you! Today I was doing cycling and felt just awful. I was hungry, had no energy and no motivation to finish my ride. My heart and my pulse were dancing Samba and I had the fear that I will die in the next five minutes as a result of a cardiac infarction.

Then my iPod played the song I will Remember from Toto. My batteries were recharged and I just felt happy. Just because of this song–that’s one nice example how music can change your life and your emotions.

Probably the people would say that just happy isn’t enough, but in my opinion it is one of the greatest moments ever. It means that you fell no anger, no sorrows, no stress, no nothing beside happiness—one of the greatest moments.