C25K W6D1

I almost talked myself out of running this morning. I stayed up late last night to write a blog post for work and did not get to bed 'til after 11 pm. The snooze button was my friend when the alarm went off at 4:15 this morning. I didn't roll out of bed until 4:37 am and told myself that it'll be too late to do the W6D1 run and be done by 5:50 am for work. Maybe I should skip today. Luckily, I've learned a way to trick myself out of this excuse. I make myself go to the gym anyway with the permission to skip or cut the workout short if I don't have enough time when I get to the gym. But I have to go to the gym, regardless. Usually, by the time I get to the gym, I'm ready (and even eager) to do the run.

So I got to the gym around 5:06 am and got on the track by 5:15 am. Did W6D1 --- was not pretty but I got it done.
After the 5 min. warm up, the workout includes: 5 min run, 3 min walk, 8 min run, 5 min walk, 5 min run. I was cutting it close so only did a 3-min instead of 5-min cool down.

I had thought W6D1 would be easier since I managed to do the 20 min. run on W5D3. Boy, was I wrong. Mentally, it was harder for me since I know I still have another 2 run intervals when I finished the first 5 minutes, etc... With the one 20 minutes, I just hung in there and told myself I'm almost done. That did not work as well today --- not even when I got to the last 5 min run. I guess this was a way to work on my endurance.

Feels good though. No pain. Knees are fine. I still feel a little awkward running, but I don't have that pretender / impostor feeling anymore.

Work looks busy this week. I may not get a chance to do W6D2 until Friday evening then will plan to do W6D3 (25 min run!) on Monday so I don't have to worry about getting to work on time.