At the end of my day, I headed straight to ULTRA for my training. My calves still hurt like hell but what the heck. No pain no gain… well, hopefully, it would result in a loss of more pounds.

I did the usual 2km warm-up followed by some running drills. It’s really difficult to start back at square one. I’m building my base but I know that it’s also for the best since I don’t want my body to get shocked. Slow and steady is best and it is more reliable.

When I was doing the running drills, I found myself gasping for air. My body is really not used to doing what I used to do on a regular basis.

The last time I was at ULTRA, I wasn’t sure if I was doing the midfoot or forefoot strike. So today, I tried my best not to land on the area between the ball of my foot and my toes. According to what I’ve been reading, that’s the forefoot. I also consciously tried not to land on my heels. I guess if I did both, I’d end up doing the midfoot strike.

My plan for the day was to do a 5k interval session. This means running at 80% at the straight parts of the track while jogging on the curved portions. Well, since I was starting, I thought that I should run-walk-run instead of run-jog-run. Thinking of the entire workout bored me. It would mean that for every loop around the oval, I’d run twice and walk twice. In order for me to do 5k, I had to do 12.5 laps around the oval and it would translate to 50 run-walk-run segments. The idea of doing 50 just seemed too much and seemed really boring and I didn’t like the idea that it would take so long to finish.

As predicted, I got bored in the middle of the workout and I ended up doing 3.2km or 32 segments of the run-walk routine. Well, not bad if I count the 2km warmup that I did also. Let’s just hope all this work pays off