I ran my C25K Week in New Orleans. It was difficult to go out all night and have amazing food and then wake up the next morning and run for a while.
The first two runs (W5D1) (W5D2) were not too bad. I ran the second one in the rain. It wasn't too bad. But the third run I just couldn't do. It was a 20 minute straight run. I got to 10 minutes and stopped. It was like "how am I supposed to continue?" I felt like my body couldn't have run 15 minutes if my life depended on it. I needed a lot of time to recover after the 10 minute run. But I closed it out with an 8 minute run and a 2 minute run. So I tried my hardest to do a 10-10 on minimal rest. I'm going to repeat this past week but restructure it as 10-5-10, 10-2-10, and 15-5-5. I couldn't jump from 8-5-8 to 20. Just in case you're not familiar, the 5 in 8-5-8 is the minutes I would walk instead of run (as a "rest").
I ran along the Mississippi River, at the Riverwalk, and it was a very nice environment for running because lots of other runners were on the path. It definitely didn't help that I was eating a lot this week. I know I would have performed much better otherwise. Could I have completed the 20 minute run? Who knows? My guess is no.
I was also on my feet for about 8-12 hours each day. I was at a conference in New Orleans where I WALKED AND WALKED AND WALKED. So without the conference, I probably would have been able to run the 20 minutes.
It's kind of disappointing, but I'm not that fazed. I'm excited for doing the next week. But blogging about it has become momentarily boring. There is plenty of other stuff to talk about though that is more entertaining.
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