I glanced back at previous posts in the blog, and I will apologize for any stilted, or strangely phrased posts. Please remember that the majority of these are from my phone, and typing on the little touch screen keyboard can be irritating.
Today, Wednesday, I did not want to wake up. I did extremely well in not laying back down "for just a moment" and reminded myself that I MUST leave the house at 5am. I dragged my aching body through the morning routine of getting dressed, and whatnot. By the time I made it to the front door, I was feeling a little more awake. Covered the blister I had acquired on Monday with a band aid, made a note to myself that we need to buy more "adult" band aids, or we will all be running around with Barbie and Hello Kitty ones soon. That could look strange if my husband needs one.
Texted my husband I was out, turned on the GPS pedometer app, the C2K5 app, and off I went.
I chose a slight variation of Route 3 today. Not cutting through the back yard to start with, just heading up one of the roads that leads to the path. The first 60 second run/jog was quick. I was surprised it was over when the app told me to walk. On I went. The path ended, and I decided to follow the paved road until I was halfway through, then just make my way back. That went well until the Pedometer app decided to work like it's supposed to.
For the first time since this adventure started, it chimed up, very loudly, "One Mile". Made me jump. I'm glad I was in a relatively house free area at 5:15 in the morning or someone would have spilled their coffee laughing at me. I turned around at that point and started back, only to have my other app announce I was half way through about a minute later. The trek back is where you start to get tired of the run portion. You get 30 seconds into the run and one half of your brain says "oh man, this is killing me, this will never end!" The other side says "it's 1 minute. Chill out" Then, just when you've got your rhythm.. at about 55 seconds, you think "I got this, I can keep going longer" the app says "Start Walking". Fine. Be that way.
I returned through the sagebrush and cacti in the backyard. But since my adventure through it over the weekend, I have mostly found the path with the least cacti, so it wasn't as slow picking my way through as it was.
My post workout was a nice 20 minutes of yoga. Much better then Monday when I had too much I thought I wanted to do, then did nothing for half an hour.
My plans for the 5k have been pushed. I didn't realize that it was the same weekend as a trip we are planning to take. So, I need to either find a new 5k, or just call this training in training for the 5k.
I will post again Friday.
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