Couch to 5k Week 2 Day 1~!

Week 2 Day 1

Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 90 seconds of jogging and two minutes of walking for a total of 20 minutes.

Average heart rate: 156

Highest heart rate: 177

Yup. (It was actually 31 minutes, but it took a few minutes for my watch to sync, just so it's clear I'm not cutting corners hehe)

First off the great news - my shins feel fine! *Touch wood* but it seems those two days of rest and massaging my calves before this mornings run really seemed to help. I even ran outside (and uphill!) which may have been an awful idea after how bad they were hurting Friday but I'm pleased to report that the only thing that is hurting are my lungs after huffing and puffing my way through these 90 second intervals like the unfit lump I am ;)

It's strange how much difference 30 seconds makes. I mean it was doable, but the spike in difficulty was obvious (I feel like having a little wee at the thought of running 20 minutes without stopping in only a few weeks! Eee!)  I had phenomenally bad luck though. There is this absolute beast of a hill and every single time I'd reach the bottom of it "start running now" and I swear that hill feels almost vertical. Every time. I was going so slow you'd think I was running on a treadmill because I was barely moving and SO out of breath! ~*~#1 athlete of the year~*~ I know. 

It didn't help that I did a stupid thing where when it said 'start walking' I ran for about 30 seconds longer because there was a man in the distance and I didn't want to walk past him (in part due to embarrassment, another part because it's so dark and scary and I have a probably irrational fear of getting mugged or snatched!) and this was right after the hill. So I didn't make this run easy on myself ;). It went alright though. I definitely feel like I got a workout in today, let's put it that way! You know, even the most successful, most accomplished people have a starting point. I'm trying to remember that and shed the shame I feel panting like a dog down my road at 5 in the morning ha!

Wooo so glad about my shins not feeling crummy though. Long may it last. 

Anyway, I shall be posting my first weigh-in tomorrow (!!)

Until then,

- Nova x