Running Free

Last Saturday I tried something new: running without wearing my stopwatch. I had heard of people doing this for a change of pace (heehee, no pun intended) as a way to just enjoy a run, so I thought I'd give it a try. It was actually quite nice to just go out and run, and not be bound to the pace readout on my watch. To gauge my effort, I imagined a rate of perceived exertion (RPE) scale and tried to keep the effort in the "somewhat hard" range (it was a easy run day, so I wasn't really concerned about pushing it too hard). I did the same thing yesterday, so I think that I may try running like this once a week.