u/Catstronautilusrex

These 2 runs are little over 2 months apart. I’m 30yo male who started running this year. I’m relatively fit but I’ve never done any active sport and on top of that I’ve been smoking a lot for quite a while now so one of my motivation to start running is the hope that it will help me quit this nasty habit.

The main difference between my first run and the latest run:

1. Getting proper running shoes
2. Body actually adapts and can take heavier load
3. Working on my running form (I mean the way I run)
4. Learning how to breath
5. Not going all out from the start
   + that last run I decided to follow a random runner who I thought had pretty ok pace but it turned out that dude kept a pace around 4:30-4:50/km which was pretty tough for me to keep up with. I didn’t want to give up and kept tailing him which helped me to push further than usual. Now when I think about it, maybe he was trying to run away from me??