Six Minutes of Success

I went to the gym earlier than usual this morning, getting my workout in between dropping off the younger kids at their school and the teenager to hers. I’ve now started week two of training, and I feel awesome. My head is really in this. I wish that my body would hurry and catch up, though… I want to RUN!

I started my workout by walking about three minutes, then running. I was going to run for four minutes, but felt so good that I kept going until I hit the six minute mark. I think I could have gone even longer than six minutes, but I didn’t want to overdo it. That’s been another problem that I have, is that I throw myself into working out so hard that I wear myself out and tear myself up and just quit entirely. So I have to remind myself to take it slow, that it’s alright to pace myself.

Anyway, I’ve decided on two goals for this week; the first one is to maintain at least thirteen minutes total of running (out of thirty). The second is to run at least one six minute stretch non-stop every time I get on the treadmill. If I do more than thirteen minutes of running, or more than six minutes in one shot, cool. But the goal is to maintain this as my minimum for success for this week. Next Tuesday I’ll step it up, depending on how I feel and how well I’ve done this week.

I’m so excited! It’s only been a week and I see little successes with almost every workout. Every day I do a little more, a little more. It’s really cool. I really think that by the time February sixth rolls around, if I’m not able to run the entire 5K, I’ll be really, really close.

I think that next week I’ll add a cross-training day, too. Mondays at my gym they have Zumba classes and they look like a lot of fun. I’m not adding weights to my workout until I’ve been doing this running thing for at least one month, but I think doing something besides running might be good for me. Mix it up a little. Keep it interesting.

Today was a good day. I hope tomorrow is, too!