The Mickey Mouse Mind Trick
3 hours ago
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Accountability time: I only ran twice last week. I posted last Tuesday and ran again on Thursday (to great results). The weekend found me completely out of energy. Rather than go running, which would have corrected that problem, I succumbed to excuse making and stayed home.
Sunday night, I did some soul searching and am now in the process of simplifying what I can. The blog is staying. Feel free to cheer with delight or sob in relief.
Today was the day I ramped things up and started running for 1 minute and walking for 1 minute. I'm still restricted to 15 minutes total as my ankles continue to improve. I look at 1 minute/1 minute and it seems like such a small thing. Not for non-runner Sarah.
I think each step up my incremental couch to 5K journey will be the same. I started with the 1 minute walk, counting the seconds until I would have to commit myself to a full 60 seconds of running. Once I got into the 50s, I experienced the same feeling of terror I feel when a roller coaster car is almost to top of its dizzying incline and will be descending in mere seconds.
What am I doing here? Why am I doing this? Am I CRAZY?!
I'm happy to report that the minute wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. In fact, it was only my last minute run that was even a little bit challenging. I'm huffing and puffing, sure. My muscles are burning, sure. But it doesn't feel impossible anymore.
Labels: Couch to 5K, Race for the Cure, Team Mother Load
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1 comments:
so proud of you!! keep it up. I wish my knees were healthy enough to run because if they were I would be running everyday.
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