Sooooooo. Today was a 25 minute run. Straight up, no intervals. Which turned out to be a good thing, since when I got out on my warm up walk, I realized that the Week 7 podcast for C25K hadn't uploaded to my iPod. Oh well. I fired up the Nike Plus and told it I wanted a half hour work out (5 minute warm up walk included) and turned on my music and took off...
...into the fourth ring of Hell. Well, not Hell, because Hell is supposedly hot. It was disgusting outside today. Snowing and 40*F and very windy- gusts up to 40mph. I had to run today, because tomorrow I am getting another shot in my knee, so that means no running until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest. I got up at looked outside, and almost threw in the towel. But I don't want to fall behind, and I felt like running in crappy weather would help me earn my street cred as a "real" runner. So off I went, in long capris and high socks, a long sleeved t-shirt, a yellow windbreaker (with hood pulled up) and a baseball cap. I'm sure I was quite the looker.
I was afraid my asthma would flare up in the cold weather, but it didn't. I coughed a little afterwards, but felt fine lung-wise as I ran. I think it helped that I'm now fit enough to control my breathing and breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth as I run- it warms the air, I think. Small victories.
I ran the course from my house, because today is Mother's Day and I had to be at my parents' by 11am. That means hills. Those blasted hills. The hills, combined with the weather, made today's run much less pleasant than Friday's run, although they were of the same duration. I ran more slowly and felt ickier by the end. BUT. I. DID. IT. I think that is going to be my refrain throughout my training. This sucked, that sucked, but I did it.
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