Today (aka Day 1 of Christmas Vacation), I went to Lifetime bright and early to start tackling Week 4 of the Couch to 5k program. Let me illuminate you on what Week 4 is. As with every week of the program it starts and ends with a 5 minute walk. After the warm up, you run 3 minutes, walk 1.5 minutes, run 5 minutes, walk 2.5 minutes and repeat the sequence a second time.
I prepared by putting some nasal spray up my nose about an hour before I arrived at the gym in order to fully open my nasal passages. There is no way I'm going to run with a plugged nose. That's just crazy!
I got through round 1 okay and the second 3 minute run. I was a little nervous about the second 5 minute run. I was really pooped...well, I could have used an extra one minute of recovery is what I should say. But I knew that I would be super disappointed in myself if I didn't do the program as planned. So, I started the program when prompted by the app and I did the full 5 minutes. Ahh! I was happy to be done with that and thoroughly enjoyed the 5 minute cool down.
My feet were so sweaty, it was gross. I ate breakfast at the Life Cafe and I really wanted to kick off my shoes, but unfortunately I have a horrific foot odor problem.
I plan on doing Day 2 on Sunday and Day 3 on Thursday. Then it's on to the dreaded Week 5.
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