Day Nine

Workout: Run 4 min Walk 1 min Repeat 6 times.
Route: Around and around Donaldson Park.

JESUS CHRIST! That was intense. Intense I tell you. Half way through my fourth rep, I gave up. Started walking for about 10 seconds. I think my brain needed to catch up and wake up, tell me that I could keep doing it and I did. I finished my 6th rep at almost full speed, wanting to run faster and longer than ever. My second wind came after those 10 seconds where I gave up. I amazed myself. I was sure that once I gave up and started walking I was done, but I think I just needed a couple seconds to process. I'm proud of myself, I accomplished something, I persevered, I got back up on that horse and kept at it. My only complaint is that my left ankle is killing me. I have to call mom and ask her if that was my messed up one...I might even go to the doctor, but I'm worried that he/she will tell me to stop running. I don't want to do that. It's been two weeks and I've gone from running for about 10 minutes and possibly a mile to running about 2+miles and for 24 minutes. That's a great increase and a great accomplishment. I don't want to stop now, I want to keep going.

Next week on my walk days and Saturday I might add some kind of strength training. Maybe squats, crunches, planks and push ups. Just to even things out and make my body stronger. I'll start doing yoga again too. I hear it's good for a runner to do yoga.

Oh man, that was intense!! Tomorrow's the same thing and I know I can totally do it :).