My Scheduled Workouts For This Week:
| 4 | Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
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Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
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Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
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Alright, so if you saw my posting for Sunday, you know that I completely failed to run my Week 4, run 1 workout then. Today, I redeemed myself and pushed through to complete it.
It wasn't fast. But I did it.
My body still said no. I just didn't listen.
I've mentioned this before but I use a training app for my phone called C25KPro. It tells me when to walk, when to run, and most importantly, when I'm done. I noticed today that they did a particularly mean thing with it. The woman's voice that tells you want to do makes a point of saying "Ready? Run!" at the beginning of each running phase.
"Ready? No I'm not ready!"
I was especially not ready when I had run my first 5 minute run today. You know why I wasn't ready? Because the program is changing the game on me. Up till now, the runs have all been followed by walks of the same length, or more.
The first week: Run 60 seconds, then walk 90 seconds.
The second week: Run 90 seconds, then walk 90 seconds
The third week: Run 90 seconds, then walk 90 seconds, then run 3 minutes, then walk 3 minutes
The fourth week: Run 3 minutes, then walk 90 seconds, then run 5 minutes, then walk 2.5 minutes
Hey!
I see what you did there! You cheated me out of half my walking phases!
Yeah, it did. There is a reason for that. It's preparing me for next week when I have a full 20 minute run with no stops. It's "easing" me into it by making me work harder than I realize I am.
But I'm onto them. My body is not fooled. It hurts!
I know full well that the walking phases are smaller. Because when that voice comes over my phone and say's "Ready?" I am not.
And I tell her I'm not. Sometimes I even yell out, "No!" But while I'm telling that I'm not ready, my feet have already started moving. Traitors.
Today, I managed to keep them moving, even though I didn't want to. I'll take it.
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