One bad run

28. August 2012 · 1 comment · Categories: 5K, C25K, Celebrations, Funny, Get Healthy, Run For It, Sweaty Betty, WARRIOR

Y U No (Running)I started week 7 of C25K this morning.

Okay, hold on a second…  I know this is a post about how badly my run went this morning, but can we just focus on a positive for a second? I’ve never finished week FOUR before now, and today I started week SEVEN! That’s a big deal.

w00t.

Anyway… I set out to run the prescribed 25 minutes, just like I did on Sunday. Oh hey, did I not mention that here?

fear

Finishing that run was absolutely incredible. No stopping. No issues. No pain. No terrible, labored breathing. In fact… it was MUCH easier than I was expecting it to be. It wasn’t easy but it didn’t kill me. It started out pretty easy, hit tough spots around 7min and 12min, and then was totally manageable through the end. I just kept telling myself I could keep moving my feet, and that I would feel awesome coming back and telling everyone I did it, especially the people who’d read my earlier Tweet about genuinely not thinking I could do it. So hey, you guys got me through the longest I’ve ever run in my entire life, and I felt like a total superhero afterward. In fact, I felt like this:

Huh… you know this whole post started out as a recounting of this morning’s awful run, but I think I’m just going to cut that short. I completed 25min of running. I had to stop 3-4 times for about 20sec. I still finished the run. The 25 minute run. In the seventh week of Couch to 5K.

I still ran for 25 minutes, even if I paused a bit in between. I did it. I’ll do it again on Thursday, maybe even without stopping. So you know what, bad run? Don’t care!

Ermahgerd y’all, am I a runner?

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1 Comment

  1. Jaime Maynard
    August 29, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    Keep it up, your doing awesome. I haven’t been around to read in a while, but I decided to pop in. I did the Couch 25k in 2009 and completed the 5k run at the Bluenose Marathon in 42:00, which for me was good since I had trained for it alone and never got passes 10 minutes straight run time. I am amazed to see how much you have improved and that you are now running <20 minutes without walking breaks. Awesome. I am in week 6 of a 10 week learn to run program with the running room and loving it. I prefer the group as they keep me accountable. We are currently doing 6:1 x 3 and then sprint 2.
    Keep it up :)

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