C25K – Week 6, Day 3

Well, I finally got out there and did the 25 minute run. I took almost a week off from running and I don't even have a good excuse. I'm blaming it all on the weather. All week has just been dreary and gray with rain scattered here and there. Ugh! Haven't I been saying that for the last 3 weeks?? Just not very motivating. Plus I was kinda dreading the run, so I didn't need much to convince me to skip it.

See, I'm not even kidding about the weather... This is the worst fall ever!


But I figured I couldn't put it off any longer and went to the gym tonight. And guess what? It wasn't even that bad. I'd maybe even go so far as to say that I enjoyed it. It just felt really good to run and I really needed it. Enough sitting around like a lump!

DH came with me and ran next to me. He was running at 7 mph and I was running at a wimpy 5.5 mph. What's a good speed to be running at at this point?? Well, I'm really not too concerned about speed, I just wanted to be able to make it the whole 25 minutes. And I did. Fairly easily too. I was definitely getting tired by 15 minutes, but I knew I was over halfway and just kept on going.

Oh, and my leg didn't hurt today. Yay! I did have a pretty bad side ache at first, but that went away after awhile. Then the bottoms of my feet hurt (I really need new shoes) and my knees were just a bit sore at the end. Nothing hurts now and hour later, so that's good. Going to the gym has the added bonus of a sauna at the end. Feels wonderful to heat up the muscles and stretch them out.