Week 6 Day 3 of Couch to 5K
I’m not very pleased with myself.
I was supposed to run for 22 minutes straight, but when I got halfway through I thought I needed a break. I walked for 2 minutes and thought I’d be able to finish the second half in one try.
It didn’t happen that way. I ran for 3 more minutes, then walked 2 more. Then two more sets of running 3 and walking 2, and finally running 2 and a 3 minute cool down.
I don’t know why I needed to take so many breaks. I tried to motivate myself by remembering that I woke up extra early this morning so I’d be able to do it before work because I’m going home after that. This at least motivated me to run 22 minutes even if I did have to take several breaks.
When am I finally going to get to the point where I actually enjoy running?
Week 6 Day 2 of Couch to 5K
Yesterday I walked at 3mph and ran at 4.5mph. The workout consisted of two sets of running for 10 minutes each with a 3 minute walk in between. For some reason this workout felt harder and more tiring than W5D3 where I ran for 20 minutes straight. Still feeling anxious about needing to be able to run 1.5 miles in 10 minutes by the end of the summer.
I’m thinking about doing a month without weighing in; I just don’t know when.
I don’t want to do June because I might miss finally getting out of the 200s (hopefully). Then my first goal weight isn’t too far after that and I don’t want to miss that either.
I was thinking maybe November just because I like the ring of “No Scale November” but that’s kind of far away. I just feel like I should try the no scale thing sometime because I get too focused on the day-to-day changes (or lack thereof) and I lose sight of the bigger goal.
Losing weight is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Never have I felt so successful yet so much like a failure on a daily basis.
(Source: saragetsfit)
I thought an upside to this weekend’s Oreo Situation would be that I’d avoid a plateau that I probably would have experienced soon, but I have yet to get back down to what I weighed on Friday morning. I probably won’t get back there until this weekend…and I’m going home this weekend, and that has never been good for me in terms of weight loss.
