Stages of a Blobbly Jogger

Instead of reporting how far along I am on my jogging, as I don't think I'm making too much progress anyway, I'll talk about the actual act itself.

When I first started a year ago, I went through two stages: huffing/puffing, and wheezing/aching.

Once I got a bit more into it, I went through different stages: 4-count breathing, 3-count breathing (which persists the rest of the time), increase of pace, decrease of pace, sweating, staring at the ground, then lung explosion. Or something else gives way.

The 4-count and 3-count thing is the number of steps one takes for inhaling and exhaling. The phys. ed. teacher in cegep told us that keeping a constant breathing rate was one of the more important things when running, but he only mentioned the 4-count. Every exercise routine and accompanying music track is in 4-count. Nobody has anything to do with 3-count.

I think my breathing is too shallow. :(