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Feels great to get off that couch!!!

Hi my name is Darian and this morning I finished week one day one. I got this app yesterday and I hope I stick with it. I am a future sailor (going into the navy) and yesterday I trained with the other future sailors and we all jogged/ran 3 miles. Now I could handle the first mile and a half but the second one was what killed me. I couldn't breathe, and I was breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth, and so I eventually let everyone pass me (even though we were supposed to be doing it as one big group). There were a small handful of us that did the same and admittedly some passed me, but I toughed it out and finished it without getting into the car that a recruiter was in so we could rest and catch our breath. I didn't finish last but it was definitely a wake up call.

I read on a running forum the recommendation to breathe in for three steps and out over two steps: in-in-in-out-out I always run outside and with my own music playing, but I find focusing on this breathing rhythm helps enormously. It means the first breath in coincides with the left and right footfall alternately, and it evens out the stress on the legs and feet.