Oh boy. Today is Run 4, Walk 5, Run 4, Walk 5. I've been looking forward to this one. And we all know by now what happens when I get excited about a day: EPIC FAIL. So, I tried to check my excitement, thinking maybe it really does lead to me over-exerting and then the fail..
It's raining today and it's going to be off and on, but I wasn't too worried about that. When I was ready to go, it had stopped raining, but it takes me a looong time to get ready. I am not one who gives a flip what I look like when I workout. I do, however, want to be dressed comfortably and appropriately for what I am doing, and I never, ever want to be cold. I also don't want to wear a shirt that I particularly like, as it will come home a stinky mess. So after much tooling around getting dressed (read: digging clothes out of the hamper from prior runs), doing my stretches, and setting my alarms, it was raining. Fairly hard.
Well, I had my Under Armour and a t-shirt on and that thing definitely does wick away the water. I wish my way-too-long-bought-for-yoga pants wicked away water. Halfway through, I felt like I was running with sponges on my feet. But, I get ahead of myself.
I didn't have a particular route in mind, but I was aiming in the general direction of the non sex offender route. I take off up the alley, phone up my sleeve, hoping to keep it dry, and it's really raining pretty hard. I can't believe I'm doing this. I don't even like to get out of bed when it's raining, and here I am running through puddles, dodging raindrops and worms. (I.Hate.Worms.) I felt like I was going at a good pace, and was covering good ground, and was really digging running in the rain, but I hit an uphill in the last 30-40 seconds, and it was brutal. I'm starting to get concerned that 4 or 5 minutes is the max I can do!
I was wandering about the neighborhood, panting like a fat dog in July, when it was time to take off again. Ugh, like 4 steps in I found out how hard it is to start running again after walking. I only made it two minutes, until I stopped. I mean, stood on the corner with my hands on my knees, mouth hanging open. I've been watching other runners lately, and they do not seem to struggle like this. Granted, I have some good stretches, but most of the time I must look terribly pained. Anyway, I didn't stop long, for fear of dying in a very low traffic neighborhood, so I started walking.
I really don't know what you're supposed to do with these training plans when you can't complete them, but after walking two minutes, and regaining my breath, I took off again. I made it about another minute and a half...I was trying to make it to the end of the block, which should have been the 2 minutes, thereby getting a total of 8 minutes of running in. I told myself it was mental. I told myself there was no physical reason I couldn't do this. I started counting. I told myself no one ever died from running.
Wait, yes they do! I stopped, and walked the last 3.5 minutes home, wondering if I should switch to a different couch to 5K program. So far week 3 has consisted of not running 6 consecutive minutes, and not running 8 minutes with a 5 minute break in between (and barely getting through the first 4 minutes). And my next run has 7 consecutive minutes. I don't see anyway to complete that, but I will again try...as that is the end of the week, if I can't do it, I'll definitely have to repeat one of these weeks (last week? this week?).
I noticed today that my shoes are definitely not waterproof...ew...I went entirely on pavement, water, and mud today, unless you count where grass covers the sidewalks, which is pretty significant around here. I've learned that curbs are my enemies. I can NOT lift my feet up when I come to one. I got home sopping wet, and crawled into a nice hot shower, only to get out and ice... My right foot is achy. Another old injury that has flared up in the last few runs. Today was the first day I got a side cramp, which I used to get all the time when I ran...that needs to quit, or I'm going to.
Once again on the brink of quitting, I plug my distance and times into the calculators and get the best times so far, by a couple of minutes. I know I'm not even covering half the distance, but I had 45 minutes to do the 5K as a lofty goal, and I'm at 47 now? I guess I'll keep going, and try not to beat myself up so hard. Maybe I need to eat some raw eggs before I run? Or quit, yeah, I'm quitting before I eat raw eggs.
Weather: 58, showers, breezy at 11mph, humidity 96%
Time: 11am; Run 4, Walk 5, Run 2, Walk 2, Run 1.5, Walk 3.5
Distance: 2.04K (1.27m)
Elevation: +62.9/-58.7/net 4.2 ft
5K/10K: 47:24/1:40:13
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