Training day 3
Oh.
My.
God.
It all started out so well - 2 tracks of Linkin Park to warm up, then switch over to my new “6 and 1″ playlist. I hadn’t taken much notice of the order of the songs, just alternated 6 minutes with 1 minute. As the first song started, I thought it was pretty apt, since I was full of trepidation at running for the first time in about 10 years - Trivium and “A gunshot to the head of trepidation”.
I think I will change the order - I was walking in time to the music, and it’s awfully fast, so by the time it came to my 1 minute run I was already out of breath.
Sad to say I couldn’t manage the whole minute. I think I managed 45 seconds before my legs decided they were not going to leave the ground - I think some pixies had come and fixed lead weights to them as soon as I started to run.
And sports bra? I need sports pants, my arse was wobbling so much!
Still, then walked for another 6 minutes - again, I think the beat was just a tad too fast - and then came the next 1 minute track. Again, I only managed about 45 seconds.
Then I headed for home, listening to a much more sensible speed track (I am going to change this over with Trivium for Friday’s run), and as I hit my road the new 1 minute track began. I’d like to say I ran for the whole minute - and I did in fact run at the start, and again at the end, but I had the nice excuse of a road to cross in the middle, so stopped to let the cars (real and imagined) go past.
Tomorrow is ‘rest day’, but I might get up and just go for a walk around the park - see how I feel, and see what the weather is like. Wednesday, according to the plan, is just a 15 minute walk. A 15 minute walk from here is very boring, I’d much rather make it half an hour and at least I get to walk around the park and see the ducks!