The Only Difference Between Snow And Sand Is The Temperature
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: City Running | Tags: beach, cruise intervals, miami, sand 7 Comments »
I’m on Miami Beach working on my Startup Communities book. Actually, today was the first day I’ve written anything – I spent the past two days getting acclimated. Ok – I spent the last two days procrastinating, but that’s how it works for writers. Maybe I’ll go on a bender all night long, sit by the pool with a bottle of whiskey in the morning, and crank out 50 pages.
Or maybe I’ll try my cruise intervals again. 6 minutes fast, 3 minutes walking times 5. One minor problem – I forgot that I’d be on sand for most of it. Have you ever tried to run in sand? It’s like running on snow except it’s warm. As I started the first interval, I thought to myself “ok – let’s go.” After a minute I was depressed. I was working hard, but not moving very fast. After two minutes I decided to change my attitude and just run. I ended up with some boardwalk on the way back and turned in an 8:26 and a 9:19 which was a solid way to end.
I’m back to procrastinating. This blog post was another delay tactic. Soon I’ll need to take a shower and go out to dinner. Writing a book is really hard.
As you said when talking about Startup Marriage – sounds like homework.
Be careful of your calves. Don’t push too hard on the sand.
I’m enjoying writing this book. It’s just super hard to put in real stretches of time. I guess if I was a professional writer it might be different.
“Writing a book is really hard”
Yep.
Walking on sand is hard enough–but running on it? I don’t know how people do it. Seems like you would have to run on the balls of your feet if you don’t want to sink too deep. I don’t know. I’m still in the walking phase, lol.
Good luck on your writing. I’m writing, too, and it’s TOUGH.
Running in the sand is one of the tougher surfaces to run on but I think you are right on by “…just run[ning]” because that’s all you can do when on the sand. Did you really climb 901ft during this run? If nothing else, you can use that as an reason it was so difficult.
The climbs were either gradual or up and down the boardwalk steps. So they don’t really count. More sand today!
Running on sand is hard, running on snow is hard….you’re going to feel like you’ve got wings when you run on pavement again!