Couch to 5k W3D3

I just finished week 3! And it only took me 4 weeks! Woohoo!

That means I'm 1/3 of the way to a 5k (as far as this program's standards are concerned). It feels like good progress. Week 4 will consist of 3 minutes jogging, then 90 seconds walking, then 5 minutes jogging, then 2.5 minutes walking, then 3 minutes jogging, then 90 seconds walking, then 5 minutes jogging. I don't know about you, but that seems like a hell of a jump in expectations.

The good news is that today I felt good and ran for an extra minute. I definitely know what 5 minutes will feel like. I'm ready. It's pretty exciting (considering where I started).

Tonight I only spotted a single cop car. Pretty stale this evening. No other runners at 1 am. It sucks when I want to check my watch and it's too dark to read the hands (uh glow in the dark watches?) but it is hardly a problem and I gladly trade it for the solitude I experience at 1 am. There is no one on the streets for miles. It's great and I'm able to be alone with my music.

The Bomb the Music Industry! running iPod mixtape is absolutely destroying. I wouldn't run to anything else. All the songs are free. The playlist is called "Run the Music Industry!" and it has the following songs (I shuffle them anyway):

Stuff That I Like
Fresh Attitude, Young Body
25!
Happy Anterrabae Day!!!
You Still Believe in Me?
Planning My Death
The First Time I Met Sanowan
Does Your Face Hurt? No? 'Cause It's Killin' Me!!!
It Ceases to be "Whining" If You're Still "Shitting Blood"
Big Plans of Sleeping In
Funcoland vs. The Southern Electorate
Ready...Set...No!!!
THERE'S My Bailout!
A Shine to It (Laura Stevenson cover)
Everybody that you Love
Matchless, Considerable Weirdness, The B48 Home
493 Ruth
Bike Test 1 2 3
25 Hour Goddamn Telethon
Never Trust a Man without a Horribly Embarrassing Secret
5 Funerals
My Response to an Article in Alternative Press
From Martyrdom to Star(tyr)dom
Tell My Boss, "I Hate You"
This Year For Presidents' Day, I'm Giving Up on Rock and Roll
The Soul Crushing Northeast
Pog
Congratulations, John, On Joining Every Time I Die
Dude, Get With the Program
Bomb the Music Industry! (And Action Action) (And Refused) (And Born Against) Are Fucking Dead
Syke! Life is Awesome!

It's a great playlist to enjoy while running. 31 flavors of BTMI!

I haven't been eating as well the past week as I have the past few months. I upped the exercise program but now I need to start calorie counting again. My weight loss kind of flatlined this week. I've been at a +/- 2 pounds for a week. I need to gain a little more discipline.

One way I tricked myself into eating lots of greens is by buying a bag of lettuce and putting pieces of lettuce onto all of the foods I make. Or I'll just eat the lettuce out of the bag. That's kind of a joke?

But it's not helping...yet. My car has been ABSOLUTELY AWFUL the past few months so I've been unable to drive to purchase food. I've been biking with myriad bags on my handlebars from grocery stores that compose an inadequate assortment of macaroni and cheese, chewy granola bars (which are apparently not healthy and have trans fats and cause cancer and recently shot up a hospital in Ciudad Juarez), and lunch meats.

It's a nice time to reflect on C25K. I really enjoy this program. It's manageable. It sets a realistic time constraint for my workout. I know when I'll start and when I'll finish, and how I can structure the workout within the context of my day or week. I HATED running before this program. I would run once every few months and then take a few months off to recover from the hatred. It wasn't healthy, and I wasn't healthy. But now this is turning things around. EVERYTHING IS COMING UP ROSES!