Well, it was the longest for me, anyway! Today was the day that the C25K program had me do one single run! 5 minutes of warm up walking, a 20 minute run, and then another walk to cool down! If that weren't enough, I actually ran a couple of minutes longer than I needed to. I figured that I might as well just go all the way to the other side of the mailboxes before I slowed to cool down. I must admit that there were a couple of points that I thought I really needed to take a walk break, but then realized that it wasn't that I needed to take the walk break - it was merely that I wanted to take a walk break. There's a big difference between needing and wanting, so I persevered and it got me another PR with Paula Radcliffe chatting at me! Yay!
Not that I am speedy yet, by any means! And I know that my recorded pace is off because my Nike+ isn't calibrated correctly, but I LOVE that I can see progress! Oooh! I need to hear/say that again... I can see progress! I feel particularly good about today's run because my muscles are a little sore.
You see, I started my boot camp class yesterday morning. I got up at 4:30 am to leave by 5:00 and went to exercise outside in the dark. I'm not going to lie... It was hard! The class was intermittent strength/core training and running laps. It was already 76 degrees (24 C) and humid at 5:30. And it was dark - but not too dark for the mosquitos! Today it hurts to cough or inhale deeply and raising my arms is a real challenge. But I'm going to go back and do it again tomorrow! Tomorrow's routine is supposed to be a "total body blast" and I'm hoping that doesn't include abs and arms. I have a feeling I'll be disappointed, though! Our instructor told us that there will come a time when we look forward that sore feeling from working out. Desire it! I don't know. That seems odd to me. Who wants to have pain? If I want pain, I could just get a tattoo and have some cool new body art to show for it.
Today's run was totally uneventful, with the exception of going faster and longer than I have in the past, and continuing on when I wanted to slow down. Hmmm... put it that way and maybe it wasn't so uneventful! It was dark when I started and light when I got back home. I scared a small family of rabbits out of a neighbor's yard. That will teach them for nibbling in the garden.
Boot camp tomorrow and running again on Thursday. See ya then!
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