Last Thursday I finished week 1 of the Couch to 5K program and was extremely pleased with myself. Then things went downhill. The shoulder hurt bad. The weekend came. Party on Sunday. Monday - slothday...blah, blah, blah...... So today I was determined to get back on the horse. I want to run. I love running in races. I love the feeling of accomplishment that I only get from doing races. I love it.... So I laced up my shoes and headed out. I started Week 2 which is 90 seconds of running and 2 minutes of walking - 6 times. It was awesome. The first interval or two were tough but once I got rolling it was all good. Love that feeling..... I did a total of 2 miles in 30 minutes. That does not sound like much but consider this; 5 minutes walking to warm up and cool down. That leaves only 20 minutes running time. 6 intervals of 90 seconds running and 120 seconds walking. That gives a total running time of 9 minutes and 11 minutes walking. So covering 2 miles in that time is really not that bad at all. It's a place to start.
Once I got home I sat and made a list of things I need to get done before school starts next week. That way I won't sit on my butt until Sunday and then knock myself out. I'm off to the showers and then to start on my list.
05 October 2010
Insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I took a couple of days off to give my shoulder a chance to start to heal (and because it was very painful) and ended up doing basically nothing. Yesterday I laid around and read most of the morning and spent the afternoon playing on the computer. I felt pretty crappy and drugged out most of the day. I did not workout last night and felt really tired pretty early on. I slept really good but this morning I feel like I'm drugged. I have a headache and my neck/shoulder is stiff. I hate this. This is what happens when I do nothing. Without too much trouble at all I could lie around all day today too. But, at least by now, I know better. I'm going to go for a run in a few minutes and then get some things done. I will probably do some school work since we go back next week :( So no more insanity. Today I get moving and start to ramp up for school next week.
I took a couple of days off to give my shoulder a chance to start to heal (and because it was very painful) and ended up doing basically nothing. Yesterday I laid around and read most of the morning and spent the afternoon playing on the computer. I felt pretty crappy and drugged out most of the day. I did not workout last night and felt really tired pretty early on. I slept really good but this morning I feel like I'm drugged. I have a headache and my neck/shoulder is stiff. I hate this. This is what happens when I do nothing. Without too much trouble at all I could lie around all day today too. But, at least by now, I know better. I'm going to go for a run in a few minutes and then get some things done. I will probably do some school work since we go back next week :( So no more insanity. Today I get moving and start to ramp up for school next week.
04 October 2010
It's been a few days
and things have not been great. Last week I developed a pain in my shoulder. It was pretty serious and I was in a lot of pain. After a few days it wasn't healing as quickly as it should be. I finally went to the doctor and it seems that I might have torn the tendons in my shoulder. It's not torn completely, the doc said I would be in complete agony if that happened. So I'm taking ibuprofen and hoping it will heal on it's own. The doc said I could workout if I didn't go crazy but I decided to take a couple of days off to give it a rest. I'm also not going to do the kickboxing stuff anymore. I think that's what did me in. I really get into throwing those punches. Yesterday we had a party here and I'm a little hung-over today. I didn't run this morning and I'm debating about working out tonight. Maybe I'll start back in tomorrow.
In an interesting side note. I went to the doctor and stepped on the scale. Their scale said 192. Now I knew it was going to be up because a) it was in the afternoon; b) I had laid around most of the day because I was in pain; c) I had not drank much water in 2 days. But I was still shocked at that number. I was 175 in the morning and 192 in the afternoon?? That doesn't seem right. I know the difference can be up to 10 lbs - I've seen that on the scale - but 17 lbs seems an awful lot.
In an interesting side note. I went to the doctor and stepped on the scale. Their scale said 192. Now I knew it was going to be up because a) it was in the afternoon; b) I had laid around most of the day because I was in pain; c) I had not drank much water in 2 days. But I was still shocked at that number. I was 175 in the morning and 192 in the afternoon?? That doesn't seem right. I know the difference can be up to 10 lbs - I've seen that on the scale - but 17 lbs seems an awful lot.
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