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title: 'Reluctant Is Just the Word'
date: '2014-06-08T18:40:20-04:00'
permalink: /reluctant-is-just-the-word/
tags:
    - body
    - running
---

[Boone captures something here](http://teleogistic.net/2014/06/heart-rate-monitor-training-for-the-reluctant-runner/) that I really needed to have drilled into my head: that if I’m going to get over my recent dread w/r/t running, I probably need to (a) know something about how hard the running I’m doing really is (rather than how hard I think it ought to be), and (b) make it way less hard, so that I feel less beaten up afterward. Heart rate monitor obtained, and now used for two days. The resulting info was highly instructive, and I’m feeling pretty motivated, which is a decided improvement.