Today I started the Week Two routine of Couch to 5K... and it was HARD. I thought about sitting down a few times to take a break but I kept telling myself no and kept going. The Week Two routine is to do a 5 minute warmup, then alternate between 90 seconds of jogging and 2 minutes of walking with there being six total times of jogging, then a 5 minute cool down. I have to say, I wasn't so thrilled about the 90 second jogs, but I totally digged the fact that I only had to jog 6 times as opposed to the 8 times I had to do it in Week One. I thought to myself today, "Man, I'm probably going to have to repeat the Week Two at least once before I move on to Week Three..." But then I also remembered, that's what I said about going from Week One to Week Two, and I only had to repeat one day of Week One before I felt ready to move on... so we shall see. You're only supposed to do it three days out of the week. but at some point I'm going to have two days between the changing weeks, so to keep my body ready to go each day and to get myself more into a routine, I'm trying hard to stick to doing it every other day. So far, things are going well, so I say lets keep going!
Today's workout was particularly great because my boyfriend joined me, which is nothing out of the ordinary for him. He usually likes to go for a run around the lake when he's over and can pretty much run around the lake twice in the time it takes me to walk around it once. So we decided to just let each other go at our own pace and we'd meet up back at the apartment when we were both done. So he takes off, and I'm just bopping along. Eventually I get most of the way through my workout and I think... shouldn't he have lapped me by now? I figured maybe he just decided to run around once and maybe he was back at the apartment already, so I kept on trucking. I get to the end of the cool down portion of my workout, my C25K app tells me the workout is complete. I go to take my phone out and take my post-workout selfie since I was happy that I got further down the trail than before. I turn around to look behind me before I take the selfie and I saw him running up behind me. Even though he was ahead of me, I was still going fast enough where he hadn't lapped me because he didn't catch up to me by the end of his second circuit around. This all kind of blew my mind. I really expected to see him about half way through my workout, and to run into him right at the end was sort of a nice feeling of progress. Soon, I hope to be able to keep up a more similar pace to him all the way around the lake, but everything needs to go one step at a time as I learn to pace myself.
So this morning I got to sleep in, which was great. But unfortunately my body has gotten used to waking up early on my workdays so on my days off I tend to wake up around 6-6:30am either out of habit or because nature calls. This morning it was the latter. So I got up, did what needed to be done and on my way back to my room I thought... I know my Weigh-In Wednesday isn't for another few days, but what's the harm in getting a little preview? So I got on the scale, held my breath...... 193.2.... or was it 192.3?.... Either way, I have lost about 2-3 pounds in just over a week (This Wednesday will be 2 weeks since my original weigh-in, and will be the next Official Weigh-In Wednesday, so stay tuned!) So that was also a nice little ego boost. That all of this work is worth it and I'm actually slowly working towards my goal to be a healthier me!
Anyways, I guess I should get going. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Blessings and Later Days,
--CarryV
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