Week 3, Day 1

This week is going to be tough.  My Couch to 5k routine is now thus: 

Brisk five-minute warmup walk.  Then, two repetitions of the following:

• Jog for 90 seconds
• Walk for 90 seconds
• Jog for three minutes
• Walk for three minutes

Okay, the three minutes of jogging, the first time it came around, was interminable.  Besides the fact that it came on the uphill swing of my route, running for three minutes straight felt like I was going to fall over by the time it was over.  The more I focused on how hard it was, the harder it became.  On the next cycle, I changed my thinking and began to imagine that as I was running, I had actually been running for many minutes already, and I was somehow less fatigued and buoyed by the thoughts that I could actually run for a long period of time.  I thought, "Wow, I'm not that tired for having run for so long already!"  And then, when the 90 seconds of running came around, it was a piece of cake.

I mistakenly ran three cycles today, and I am feeling it.  But not as much as I would have thought just three weeks ago when I was setting mini-goals to buy my shoes at Runner's Soul!  Bloomsday here I come!