Daily Archives: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

In spite of my relative tiredness from the nastiest bout of the flu I’ve had in many years, I went to karate today with MM of course and tried to rank from yellow to orange. I have to tell you that karate in general, and ranking in particular is way harder than running. When I run, I run at maximum efficiency and I am rarely out of breath. It takes relatively little effort to maintain a pace once you achieve it and relatively little extra effort to increase or change that pace. But in karate the effort is tremendous. I am speaking for myself here because I am not efficient at it. A lot of the time I am not breathing properly. I tend to go anaerobic too often. This is similar to running fartleks (a Swedish term for speed play). In fact, part of the criticism I received today … Continue reading →