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Once a week is not enough to run hard.

You would think that since I run hard once a week, I would start to feel less demolished after two or three minutes.

But noooooooo.

We had a rough game last night (which we won. Wooo hoooo) against a less than congenial team. Everyone works together quite well - the chemistry is there. You cannot get chemistry like this, even in a lab.

So our couch/captain/forward/midfield decides since our usual starters were like three minutes late I got to play...

um, hello?

24 minutes halves, we are supposed to sub every two minutes, you know, so we can keep fresh.

yeah. right.

two minutes thirty seconds later.

heavy panting
I...
heavy panting
uh...
heavy panting
SUB!
heavy panting
coughing

I do not smoke anymore. I have not smoked regularly since my junior year of college, and I quit smoking altogher (i.e. socially) last year.

really. I did.

so that is not my problem.

kris still smokes and he can hold it down.

[SURGEON GENERAL.S WARNING: Tobacco Use Increases The Risk of Infertility, Stillbirth, Low Birth Weight,Lung Cancer And Heart Disease, Even In Nonsmokers]

my problem probably has to do with the lack of endurance. I remember reading somewhere that there are two levels of "endurance": some kind of high performance endurance, which I think is anaerobic - where the person can perform at a higher level for long periods or something by burning the sugar instead of fat.Then there is the low level where the endurance is for an extended period, but not quite so intense or something.

I forget.

you look it up.

bottom line.

I am not the young buck I once (or never) was...

two minutes in and I am wrecked.

a few (five) minutes later I'm good for another two minutes - more if I do not have to run hard.

but apparently I need to pick my hard runs, because I seem to run hard everywhere for no reason.

so you see, it is evident that I have to run more.

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it will also probably help if I stop eating so much damn ice cream...

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nah.

:-P