Day 3 of my 5K training and I'm hurtin'!
Did I mention that I'm also do P90X after work? Yes, I know. I'm crazy. But I want to get stronger and get ready to do P90 with Luke when he gets home from Japan (which is only 20 days away at the most-- YAY!!)
This morning when I woke up I felt lucky to be able to run and to train for a good cause, but man, was I tired! The weather is frigid in Indiana at 5:30 in the morning, which makes running with Asthma that much more difficult. Today, I was running for... being able to hit the timer button on my new watch.
Luke was gracious enough to "fund" my running and fundraising efforts by buying me new running shoes and a watch with a stop watch on it to help keep track of how long I've ran each morning. My training this week is running for 60 seconds and walking for 90 for a total of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of warm up and cool down. Not bad right? haha, say that to a NONrunner!
Today I ran for.... my new watch! I was looking down at that thing what seemed liked every 30 seconds. With exhausted legs and sore abs and arms from P90X I was waiting for those times that I could walk.
But everytime I wanted to quit I kept reminding myself of the real reason I was tired, cold, and hurting. My soreness and exhaustion is nothing compared to what a cancer patient experiences during and after treatments.
There's a bigger cause for this hard work and I hope that you will continue to follow me as I work to run, raise money, blog, and spread awareness of cancer. This is an exciting journey- come with me!
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Sounds like you're doing Couch to 5K program for running. I completed that and let me tell you, it was amazing. Good choice :) You'll do great! Maybe when I come home in November we can run a 5k together!
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