Week 5 - Monday 6/7

I'm going to be honest and say I don't know how I'm going to do this week. Not even kidding. Do you see Day 3? Run for 20 minutes with no walking??! I'm going to die. I know it.

I really don't want to be negative, but yesterday's workout was tough enough. I don't know what it was, but I think just the mental knowledge of running for 5 minutes is throwing me off. I now understand why people cover the timer on the treadmill with a towel - so they don't focus on that all of the time and just focus on the running instead. Because when I got past the first 5 minute and 3 minute stints, I was already ready to just give up. But, I didn't. Except for the part where I only ran 4 minutes instead of 5 for the last stretch.

I know I'm not getting the "correct" mileage in, and for some reason that bothers me. I know it's more of a "get the time down first, and then worry about speed", so we'll see what happens. I think once I finish these 9 weeks I'll go back to week 3 or something and start working on going faster and getting the distance in.

On the plus side - for tomorrow I downloaded a few new podcasts - two of which have interruptions for the 8 minute and 5 minute stretches, so I can cover the timer and see if that'll do me any good. :)

A delay of Week 4

So.

In all honesty, I did go to the gym last Thursday and did W4D2, but didn't write about it because I pretty much felt dead after I came home. Thursday was a crappy day anyways where I had literally 10 minutes to myself at school between an extended recess duty, making copies, and no music. Ugh. Needless to say, I didn't eat lunch, and that really affected my work out that evening. I was barely able to complete my run without thinking I was going to keel over. I walked so many times, it's not even funny.

And then life happened, and I haven't been able to get to the gym in a week. Bad Emily.

But! I went today, and decided I might as well keep going with Week 4. So, technically this is W4D3, but I think I'm going to do a "repeat" of it on Saturday to make up for the week of running I missed.

Today though wasn't that bad. I tried to keep my iPod focused on songs that were either 3 or 5 minutes long to help me during the long stretches. I'm still not making 2+ miles in 26 minutes (like I'm supposed to), but was close at 1.8 miles today. I did reach 2 miles when I did my cool down walk though.  I figure at this point I should get at least the endurance up. Speed will come later.

I did end up "liking" the Couch to 5K plan on Facebook, and that seems to be pretty good. Nice to get my motivation up, since there are so many other people doing it too.

On the plus side too, I've lost 5 lbs since starting. It's not much (I love food waaaaay too much), but at least it's something!

Now to peel myself from the couch and go to bed. :)