I completed my first week of C25K today and I am very proud of myself. I am exhausted, probably for many reasons. This was by far the hardest day so far. I ran earlier in the day so it was really hot, I have only been getting about 5 hours of sleep a night since Sunday, I stand for 8 hours at work (with some walking, and lots of pacing. lol). I did about 8 laps, so roughly 2 miles. I have no idea what my speed was but I know that it got slower as the run progressed. I'm contemplating re-doing Day 3 on Saturday...so I don't get out of the habit of running with 3 days off. It would also be nice to do it on a treadmill to see what my actual distance and speeds are.
The last 3 or 4 jogging intervals were brutal! I can already tell that this blog is going to help me. The main thing that kept me running through those intervals rather than walking them was knowing that I would have to come back and write in my blog that I gave up. Knowing that fellow C25K buddy, Mel, is already seeing results during week 2 also kept me going. I kept telling myself that it WAS worth it. I just scheduled B-pics for October 3 so that gave me an extra push.
I worked abs for about 10 minutes since I got in. I didn't feel like it at all but I've realized that listening to "Thunderstruck" as loud as I can helps a lot. LOL. I need to invest in some new headphones, mine keep falling out of my ears and this gets very annoying while running. I think that may be my "reward" to myself after completing week 2. I borrowed a friend's Bose headphones at work the other day and I fell in love with them. However, I abuse electronics severely so I don't think I can drop $100 on a set of headphones that I will most likely murder in less than a year.
I had a small salad as a snack after the run and I'm off to Doc Chey's for some yummy chinese food in a little bit. I don't know how fattening chinese food is but it's for a farewell dinner for a fellow intern.
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