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May 5, 2010
WiW: Week 6
Weight: 147.8
Waist: 31.5
Hips: 38
Thigh: 24
Wednesday's run was shitty and amazing, all at the same time. Amazing because I completed 20 consecutive minutes. Shitty because, well, I was running. I had headwinds at the beginning and end. One minute in, I wasn't sure I was going to make it to three minutes, much less finish 20. I felt like my pace was slow from the beginning, and by the end I was positively crawling. I was setting goals for myself all the way through (I can make it to the end of the street, I can make 10 minutes, the end of this song) until by the end I was running because the sunset was so pretty and I couldn't let it down. If you had dangled a Tic Tac in front of me, I would have run for it. I would have run for THE LOVE of the Tic Tac.
I think I was losing it.
It didn't help that I had downloaded a 20 minute podcast for the run, and a 5 minute song for the warm up/cool down, and I ended up listening to the same s l o w song SIX times in a row. I was hoping to concentrate on the words of the podcast, and instead I was trying to tune out this sad song about suicide.
The other two runs were intervals, which no longer have the power to scare me. Running 10 minutes is still hard, but it's so much easier than 20 it feels like cheating. Sadly, starting tonight I don't have any more interval runs left, just solid jogs for 25, then 28, then 30 minutes. *skeered*
I also seem to be on a downward weight trend. I hope it keeps up, even if it's slow, because it's much more motivating to go down instead of up. I'm actually slightly under my day-before-my-official-weigh-in weight. And in just 6 weeks!
Posted by me at May 5, 2010 10:08 PM