Training Walk 32?
(scheduled for 6/17)
- Focus: endurance for 1:30
minutes
- Duration: 1:20 minutes
- Distance: 5-6 miles?
- Rate: 3?
I'm losing track of the numbers. I
better just start dating the walks instead. I did Saturday's walk this morning,
since last evening I feel asleep. I meant to watch Daffy Duck, then walk, but I
didn't even make it through Daffy. Paul woke me up around eleven to ask me if
we were still watching movies or not. I spent some time putting together a new
music tape to fully wake up, then snuggled up with Paul on the futon for
movies. We both crashed right there! I didn't think Father's Day at my parents
wore me out so much but I guess it did!
I blinked awake at 9 AM with
Paul's arm on my head and all the sofa pillows on the floor. I felt soooo
rested! That really is a comfortable futon! Showered, dressed, hit the gym,
leaving Paul dead to the world in the living room. This was probably one of the
harder workouts I've done physically, yet I was in such a great mood it just
carried me through so emotionally it felt only medium-hard instead of
hard-hard. Goes to show what a good outlook does for you!
I did the first chunk on a cross
trainer with step intervals. It was so much fun! I felt so together and
everything was moving the way it was supposed to be moving. I didn't feel like
a heap held together by scotch tape and a prayer jostling around like I usually
do. I felt smooth, powerful, efficient. I don't know what came over me but I
decided to try some jogging the last half of the workout so I switched
machines.
I planned on doing walk/jogs so I
ignored the console and just listened to my music and thought about happy
things. Jog until I tire, then walk to recover like I usually do. I don't
really time the jog/walk intervals, I just go with how I feel and slow down
when I get winded. After a while I got thirsty. As I reached for my water in
the holder by the console imagine my shock to see I'd been running for 15
minutes straight and covered 1.5 miles! I started worrying about my ankle and
immediately I pushed that ugly thought out of my head. My ankle didn't seem to
be complaining, why worry about something that's not there? My body was
obviously off on a groove of it own today, and who am I to stop a beautiful
thing? Why not enjoy it? So I just... kept going! It was weird. It was like I
was in my body, but not in my body. I mean, this is NOT usually me doing this
well with running. Had I'd been bodysnatched while asleep on the futon last
night?!
1.75 flashed by... then 2.0 ... I
missed 2.25 but I was looking eagerly for 2.5. By the time I jogged to 2.75, it
was no longer this happy accident. It was personal! I jogged that far,
and with 3.1miles (5K) just around the bend I wasn't going to pass this up! By
that time I was thirsty again, and my fingers started to feel numb, and my
stomach and back were drenched in sweat, and I had a vague side cramp. I took
another gulp of water and pushed on through the home stretch, promising myself
if I jogged through 3.1 miles I'd knock off early, I'd buy me a chocolate Luna
Bar on the way home, I'd bike tonight instead of another walking session, I'd
take me out to dinner, I'd buy me another pair of wicking shorts, I'd get a
haircut, I'd paint my toenails. ANYTHING to get me to the end! At 3.0 I wanted
to scream and punch the man next to me just because he was there sucking up my
air, but I hung on.I kept telling myself "0.1 miles more, 0.1 miles more.
C'mon, not even half a lap around that virtual track on the console... 0.1
miles, 0.1 miles...."
So guess who beat her old 5K time
by a big, fat 15 minutes?! I jogged it in 34 minutes 28 seconds.
I had about ten minutes left in
the session but I didn't care. I no longer hated the man next to me. I wanted
to kiss him for jogging "with" me during htat horrible last bit. I
wanted to kiss everybody on the cardio floor. I practically danced down
the stairs to the locker room despite the wobbly legs. I'll yell now:
YEAAAAAH! WHEEEE! HURRAH!
Paul was just waking up when I got
home and I told him to plan on jogging our next 5K in the fall. I know
it's in me in there somewhere, I saw it come out today briefly. I might not be
superfast, I might not even be running every time time I'm on a treadmill, but
dang it, I CAN run!
Now for ice on my ankle just in
case and rest before I bike tonight. The Luna Bar was delicious. Mmmm.
