For a long time, I have started off on my left foot. This goes for stairs, kerbs, lunges... (which is fine for even-numbered workouts, not so great for odd numbers!). Knowing this often looks really weird when you have to take a teensy step not to use the right, I bow to my desire to at least appear normal, and can use either foot. The right often results in a mental face screw-up, though, but the more I do it the less it bothers me. I'm still quite conscious of it though.
Now for the Change bit for today. Every time I start running, it's starting on the left. Every time. For the last few runs, I've been thinking I should try starting on my right foot. I didn't think this would be so hard, but it is. I couldn't do this spontaneously. My brain kept thinking it over, how I would actually manage to get my right foot to be the take-off foot. I started having flash-backs to age 4 and ballet (note: I didn't continue ballet).
Tonight, I was having second thoughts about running (it was raining). But I decided to just do it - I've discovered it's much nicer, in some ways, to run in the rain. Once I was in my running gear my brain kept on thinking about this right-footed thing. Not wanting to totally embarrass myself in my street, I had a couple of little practices in the hallway.
Running is a mental thing for me. Tonight, it was super-mental. Every time I was about to run (I have 3 or 4 walking bits), I had to remember how to start on the right foot. I'm sure I must have had a weird expression every time. This was not a great run. I'm not sure if it was actually from the right-footed running, or if I was just a bit tired or hungry or under-hydrated... I will be trying to do this more often, but more so that I know that I can do it.
