Jogging: I Love/Hate It

Jogging with someone else is really nice

 I'm going to put that decision-matrix thing to the test.

There are 3 Times Jogging Feels Good
Only three, at my last count.

1. It always feels good 10 minutes into actually jogging ("wow, I'm actually jogging, this is great!");
2. it feels good 10 minutes after ("wow, I actually jogged, and I feel great!"); and
3. it always, always, always. feels good the day before ("wow, jogging makes me feel great, I think I'll jog tomorrow!").

All Other Times, Jogging Stinks.
All the rest of the time. Three examples.

1. It stinks 2 hours to one week after ("man, this stinks, I'm aching all over");
2. it stinks 10 minutes before you jog ("man, this stinks, I just can't bring myself to jog and ache 2 hours to a week after"); and
3. it stinks half an hour after it's too late to jog ("man, this stinks. I'm so lazy and I'm going to die atherosclerosis-ed.")

The decision-o-meter, when based on feeling, seems to be tilted in favor of "NOT JOGGING" - which is probably why I always feel like I'm perpetually stuck in "Jogging Stinks #3". Yet, I can't explain how fantastic it feels to be moving, breathing, sweating and grunting. It just does. i just keep going back to it.

Jogging, I guess, is just one of those things, where you can both hate it, and love it, which, admittedly, I do.

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Comments

[John]

hahah -- I love it. One other time jogging sucks is when you think of stuff that makes you want to quit -- I've been using the excuse of "getting too thirsty" but also that wearing camelpacks and waterbelts are too dorky. So I've been trying to develop a water bottle that you strap to you arm. I call it "The Body Bottle" - http://www.bodybottle.com

[Adrian Koh]

Hey John!

This is great - I've been looking for an alternative to waist-strapped waterpacks since my camelpack gave me a mean abrasion on my waist while I did a 10-miler.

Thanks for the link!

~Adrian.