I'm doing 17 things
I started the couch to 5k plan yesterday.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
With the suggestion of a friend my goal is to run M-Thursday of each week. The plan basically guarantees itself to be do-able and easy to stick to. This is encouraging.
Even though I was only running for 60 second intervals it was very difficult for me. I made the mistake of starting off too enthusiastically and was VERY tired after the first 60 seconds of running. By tired I mean my lungs were hurting and I developed a side stitch, not sleepy. I walked a little longer than recomended after that one but after the third interval I got the rhythm down and it wasnt too bad.
At this point my ‘running’ was almost embarrassingly slow. A fit person could probably walk faster than my jog pace. But It was all I could do at the time, and was still faster than the walk. This is the kind of thing that has caused me to give up in the past. Negative thoughts about how I’m “not doing anything anyway” so I might as well literally do nothing. But I felt so accomplished when I was done, and I looked my distance up on google maps and I believe I went between 1.5 and 2 miles. Not too shabby for a first try.
I’ve also been embarrassed of how I look while exercising in the past. This is gone now. I only encountered people 4 times on my 25 minute jog and they pretty much ignored me. I honestly don’t understand what I was afraid of. A fat person jogging isnt as embarrassing as a fat person NOT jogging.
I’m not sure if I will be able to move on to the next phase after just one week. This seemed hard enough as is. I guess the hardest part though was to just mentally get out there. I will asses on Thursday, my progress.
