Couch to 5k W6D2 done! It was really nice.
I ran in some nice 45 degree weather at night (feels like 39! can't feel my hands!). The W6D2 run included 10 minutes running, 3 min break, 10 minutes running. It's really great interval training that is preparing me for my next run - a 25 minute behemoth, again, setting a record for the most minutes I've ever run consecutively. I'm really excited.
I finished off my final ten minute run with an extra minute just because I felt great. I can tell that my body is not only making progress but allowing me to push it even harder. It's a really great thing to observe considering I'm not eating as well as I should be!
I've been running (no pun intended ha ha ha) all over the place lately, and it's really straining my schedule. Last night I went to bed at 5 am. Not a good decision! Tonight I wanted to go to bed at 10. I ran at 11. So we see the problem.
The running is not independent of sleep or eating habits, but it's close. I feel awesome when I go running and it's because I can breathe without issue and my body is more than happy to cooperate. It's a different type of endurance that I've never felt that I had (or even thought I could have). It's also very funny to think about the implications. If you see runners or athletes, you look at their bodies, what they've done physically, and you think "yeah that's not bad, I could do that". Well, maybe you don't think that. BUT I HAVE THAT AUDACITY. And I couldn't do what they do. Even if I dropped everything for 10 years and just hit the gym for 4 hours a day, I would still be an aging 32 year old with sub-par talent. The point I'm trying (and so far failing) to make is that people work like hell for the body that they want. It's way more than I ever realized, but it's also way more attainable now than I ever realized. I've discovered an ability I never had before. I can run.
Bring it on, 25 minute asshole. I'm not sure how it's going to go, but I'm confident that I'll just take it in stride (yet another awful pun...).
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