That's how far I jog/walked today. I feel like I might puke, or poop, or relatively die, but I got through it. There were a lot of bargains made with myself: four more light poles and then you can walk and just make it to the yellow sign and you can walk and pass the fire station and then you can walk (which is funny because I guess all else fails, I could have rung the bell at the station if I really was going to die and they could take care of it).
It took 45 minutes exactly, which is a 12'51" mile, which happens to be about 4 minutes faster than I did in high school (okay, so I don't remember actually ever running in high school). I'm pretty sure I'm in better shape now cardio-wise than I ever was, but I have a layer of blubber to burn off before I look better than before. I think I pulled a groin muscle at about 1.82, but I kept going.
My goal was/is: to complete a 5k and jog more than I walk, and not stop. Completed.
Next goal: to not feel like I'm going to collapse after I finish. And maybe do it a little faster.
February 26 is the Gasparilla 5k, and now I know I can do it. I truly had my doubts before.
3 comments:
You so can do it! They say - in that way that "they" like to say things - that really you just need to be able to run 2/3 of the distance before the event and the fact that you're already knocking out 5.6k (don't numbers sound so much better in metric), you're totally golden. Really if you're not crippled by this, you'd have just about enough time to train for a half marathon. I'm not saying you should, just that you could...
I'm just sayin' :)
I have finally found the biggest difference between us - I seriously only run if someone is chasing me. I nearly failed a quarter of PE one year because I didn't dress for PE so many times because we were doing a section on running.
No no, I hate to run. With a passion (sorry, Moo). However, I am feeling desperate about the lack of losing weight and I have zero will power (hence my chocolate and wine and cheese almost every night). Everyone I know who has lost weight and kept it off did it by running, so I'm trying to pretend I love it and see if that works.
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