Gettin' on the wheel, and Week 4

Cutie goes for a long run on the wheel
(Courtesy bobtravis @ Flickr)

Even though work is grandly dignifying, that doesn't mean that it ceases being work. Since the days of our 'first parents' in the Garden, man and woman have been engaged in fruitful activity, it's just that now we sweat a lot more and get less production from it. Perhaps Adam only had to workout one day a week to train for his first marathon - until after The Fall when running improvement became much harder to come by, encumbered by those fig leaves and dodging wild beasts. Well, the past is the past - for us, accomplishment will come through much toil and sweat and turning of that treadmill wheel in the cage (see little Cutie in the adjacent figure).

To that point, this week the timelapserunner's training schedule starts to raise the level of effort required, or at least the amount of time spent out on the road. Week 4 will see the first of many real increases in the length of the long run.  'Long' is but a mere 5.5 miles this week (as shown in yellow), though that does represent a tick up from the 3 and 4 milers we've done on previous Saturdays. As they say, "It begins."

Come on, smile! You know you love it.

TODAY'S WORKOUT: Today is, of course, a rest day - but not a day off from doing active-isolated stretching. So, we did our Fab Fourteen early this morning before getting ready for church.