Um… NOT! I started the next week of C25K this morning and felt amazing! Amazingly SLOW, that is! I went to bed early and got a solid 6 hours of sleep, but when I got up to run I felt sluggish and really wanted to stay in bed. I figured that my little burst of activity would ignite my energy fire, but when I got back home, I still just wanted to crawl under the covers and go back to sleep. I’m thinking that this may just mean that I require more than 6 hours of sleep each night, although going back to work, after a great weekend, can be quite the energy zapper, so that might be part of it, as well. To boost my energy for the rest of the day I got a triple espresso on the way to work and am getting ready to go get my 2nd cup of office coffee (which tastes watery after my espresso), and I have a 5-Hour Energy for this afternoon. If my heart explodes this noon when I am taking a walk with my co-workers, please don’t blame the guy at the coffee shop for not cutting me off after a couple of shots. Blaming my employer, with the watery coffee would be much more lucrative.
Finally figured out how to use my Nike+ in combination with my C25K app, which confirmed my lack of speed - in case I wasn’t already quite aware of it. Despite my slowness, I really did feel good about this morning’s “run” and enjoyed my selection of music, which included The Dollyrots, The Knack (Jack Kevorkian’s attorney, Geoffrey Fieger’s, brother was the front man of that band – who’d-a thunk? ), Sammy Hagar (going to see him in a couple of months), Joan Jett, and several others that I can’t remember without looking at my iPod. The highlight may have been about halfway through today’s program when Eye of the Tiger played. That inspiring music, written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for Rocky III might have made me run ahead, arms victoriously in the air, if I hadn’t been lamenting the flight of stairs that I was climbing in my mind. I concluded I don’t even like climbing imaginary stairs.
All said, I’m looking forward to Thursday run, and having more energy (and not having to run up any stairs – even imaginary ones)!
C25K2-1 run environment:
55 degrees at 5:45 am, with a light breeze
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