Week 3- Thursday 5/20 and Sunday 5/23

So, I totally didn't get around to blogging about Thursday's work out. Oh well, better late than never, right?

Thursday:
Thursday's workout went well. Did a quick work out on the cross ramp, and then did my run, as I had places to go, people to see. :)  Since my run on Tuesday was a little difficult, I decided to ramp up my running speed little by little. So, when the first 3 minute run came around, I started at speed 4.0 for the first minute, 4.5 for the second, and 5.0 for the third.  That actually wasn't half bad, but I still felt like death doing the second run. It was a lot of staring at the TV's and the clock across from me and trying not to look at the timer on the treadmill.

Sunday:
Today's workout went a whole lot better. I did 15 minutes on the cross ramp, and started upping the resistance a little more. It wasn't half bad, honestly. My run today was actually easy, the 3 minute runs today weren't bad at all. I did the same thing I did on Thursday and kept upping the speed that I was running. I actually felt good running the 2nd 3 minute run. I was proud of myself.  I think that might be the motivation to actually do week 4 next week.

However, I thought I should demonstrate how red I actually do get from running.

Here's me, pre- workout:

And then post- workout:

I just gotta say: Ew. While both of these are not really attractive pictures, I have to say, I'm not attractive once I'm done working out. Oh well.