So I've started running with my housemate in the evenings. The weather has cooled from the smothering summer heat, but hasn't yet frozen into dread winter (alright, so Brisbane doesn't see snow). We get rained on occasionally, but we're usually soaked anyway.
I shouldn't talk about the bouncing. It isn't really appropriate. I bought garments to make it stop though. You haven't experienced weird until you get the ache due to bouncing while running.
Instead I'll talk about energy. I've heard that you start feeling more energetic after you've been exercising for a while. I almost died running up the hill near our house the first time, walked the second time, and successfully ran up the third time. The fourth time, I almost died again. I don't get it. I wasn't expecting to make it that third time, and figured that if I'd done it once recently, surely I'd be able to do it again.
Not so.
Even more oddly, my legs have been fine. My arms ache instead. Bizarre, yes? I haven't been carrying weights or anything. Am I tense while running? Does exercise and being outside stress me out that badly?
Hiking around campus with a laptop and my textbooks on my back is easy, and campus is hardly flat or small. Have you been to St Lucia recently? You have to travel twice as far to get from one side of the university to the other as you used to just to get around all of the construction work going on at the moment. And yet, my shoulders and legs take that as par for the course. While carrying nothing on my evening run makes my arms feel like lead.
Science fail.
I'll see how it goes tonight.
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