There has been a little bit of discussion about how much some people hate running in one of the pivot threads. I thought I'd share my experiences.
I found getting into roadwork was very similar to teaching myself breakfalls or adding crawling and groundwork to my workout - they all involved serious indignity and outright humiliation for several months! However, if you stick with doing the basics, eventually it will start to come together.
To be clear, I'm not talking about doing anything at a particularly high level. I can run a 5k in half an hour at 200 pounds; pull off a breakfall from a slow jog on either side; and cope with five minutes of "fun time" as a warmup. The first two seemed pretty inaccessible on Day One while the last one was deeply unpleasant.
So, just do the work while nobody is watching, make haste slowly, work on the basics, be patient and wait for your body to adapt. It will come, sooner or later, assuming you don't hurt yourself by being too impatient.
N=1, obvs...
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