Week 5 – Done

Since I didn’t post about week 5, day 2: here goes.

1st 8 minute run – I made it 4 minutes, walked 2, ran 2. Next 8 minutes – shotty intervals of walking and running at best. Weather – atrocious. Instead of being hard on myself, I have to remember, we’re running on uneven asphalt that is both hilly and flat in areas and the temperature outside is increasing (upper 80s all week) along with large amounts of humidity on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Day 3 (yesterday) called for a 20 minute run. I knew I would not run the entire 20 minutes. Was I short-sighting myself? No. I was being realistic. Well, anyways, I started out at a slower pace so as not to wind myself too quickly. I ran a full 8 minutes straight…accomplishment!! Then I walked 3 minutes, ran 2, left calf developed a charlie horse, tried to push through, ended up alternating between the “old person shuffle” and walking the rest of the time. I definitely need to stretch more after runs. I haven’t been doing that.

Before movie night with the hubs, I hope to get in the ab work I’ve been trying to fit in all week, but have been unsuccessful at. Then I’m going to mentally prepare myself for week 6 which calls for the following: Day 1 – run 5, walk 3, run 8, walk 3, run 5; Day 2 – run 10, walk 3, run 10; Day 3 – run 25.  Time to beat Negative Nancy now…lol.

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