Week 2, Day 1

I miscalculated.  I thought I had read that today I would be running for periods of 1.5 minutes and walking for one minute intervals.  However, when I checked my Couch to 5k training schedule, the instructions mapped out 1.5 minute running and two minute walking intervals.  At first, I thought, huh?  It didn't make sense to me to increase the walking time in between the running.  That is, until I started running today.

Thirty seconds may not seem like a lot to some people, but tack it on to a minute of running and it becomes 50% more running at a stretch than I did last week.   And for someone who in reality, had not done anything close to "running" in about seven years, those 90 seconds seemed to stretch on F-O-R-E-V-E-R.  So by the time my interval timer beeped for me to begin walking, I was definitely feeling it.  On the plus side, the time went by much faster, since I only ended up doing six circuits instead of eight.  On the minus side, my IT band is in a non-blissful state.  A cold wrap, some stretching and some ibuprofen should do the trick.  Onward ho!