On Tuesday I wrote about how I thought I will make it through this week. Today I am back to being concerned. That must be the cycle of running or something.
Today I started out, and of course, did not want to wake up. First, my alarm went off, and my husband was still in bed. So I turned it off, and didn't immediately get up. Not sure if it was my alarm that woke him, or not, but he got up a few minutes later, and when he did I forced myself to get out of the warmth of the blankets and wake up.
I was ready to go fairly quickly after that, and headed out. I anticipated the same run cycle, so when I cleared the dirt road portion of my path and was still running past a few houses on the paved road portion the thoughts that ran through my head went like this: "oh, I must be running faster! No, no I am not running faster, my app must have shut off. Okay, I will give it until the end of this block, and if it doesn't talk to me I am checking on it." And just before I got to the end of the block it told me to walk. And the walk seemed extra long too.
I knew something was up when my halfway point was not during a run cycle like it was on Tuesday. But I kept going, didn't check my phone.
I had headed out about 1 minute later than usual, but I felt like the traffic had increased. Of course, that increase was from 1 car to 3 cars, but that's quite a difference if you think about it. And that is totally a random train of though as I was walking.
That thought was quickly followed by the annoyance of a bit of pain, when I managed to kick a rock into the top of the back of my shoe. I have no idea how that happens, except the paved road had been recently graveled, so there was quite a lot of loose gravel on it. But still, how do the little rocks kick up into the back of my shoe? I ended up having to stop to try to get it out. All that did was drop it into my shoe, where I tapped my toe and dealt with it. I can deal with bits of gravel in my shoe, just not between my ankle and the back of my shoe. That area is a bit too tender.
Then I was back to running, and I ran almost the entire way back to my house. Stopping one house away for the cool down. When I was finished and back in the house I looked at the app and found I went from the 5 minutes of running and 3 minutes of walking on Tuesday to 8 minutes of running and 5 minutes of walking. I had not skipped a day, that is just the way the app is set up. So I looked at what Saturday will be.
The 5 minutes warm up walk, followed by 20 minutes of running (no walking) o_0
Okay. That is why I am worried. Really, I feel like that escalated quickly.
So now's the time to start taking bets. Will I make it, running 20 minutes straight through, or will I end up having to walk at some point?
As you can see, I have great faith in myself. (insert eye roll here)
On a off topic note, today was my last day of Pilates on the machines for awhile. My teacher quit the gym I was attending these classes at, to move onto bigger and better things. I will be contacting her next week to see what those bigger and better things are, and how much they cost. Hopefully in a few months I will start it up again. I ended on a great note, a private lesson on the Cadillac. I really enjoy that particular Pilates "machine"
In the meantime, I will have to go back to working with my DVD's and doing strictly mat Pilates. Along with my Yoga and Piyo. I enjoy a mix, so much so that there is not enough time for it all.
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