C25K W3D1

I now know I can do this. Warm-up went as always. First 90 second run went as always. 90 seconds of walking felt like a perfect amount of time. 3 minute run? Yeah, I owned it. Granted, I forced myself to keep a slow, even pace but I didn't even consider stopping! Next 90 second run was a tad rough, I think because of the extra-long 3 minute walk preceding it. 90 second walk, awesome. This is where it gets fun.

My iPod let me know I needed to start running my last 3 minute interval. The song that came on was way too quiet so I adjusted the volume. I didn't look at my device since I keep it clipped to a belt around my hips and running while bent at the waist is awkward. Had I looked at my iPod, I would have realized that it had gone back to the home menu and that my C25K App was no longer running. The music, now at a volume that blocked out environmental noise (read: heavy traffic), kept playing so I kept running.

And I kept running.

And I kept running.

The whole I was running, I anticipated the ding to start walking. It never came. I started to doubt myself. Maybe I was imagining it had been longer than it had.

No... the song just ended. And I knew it to be a song much longer than three minutes. The next song started. I found more motivation in its beat and kept up my jog. Finally, I KNEW something was amiss. I was at the bottom of my cool-down hill, and I was getting a little out of breath!

I stopped to check my iPod. The App was no longer running, though the music player had kept going. Shoot. What the heck happened? Wait. That means I was right! I had been running WAY longer than three minutes! And I could do more if I didn't have to go up this steep hill... I didn't mind turning the app back on and asking it to continue. I was ecstatic! I still am!

My legs are sore, and that hasn't happened to me yet during this program but I don't care. I ran SEVEN blocks without stopping. That's about six minutes worth of my easy-pace jogging. So, I am really looking forward to the rest of this week, especially since I know three minutes won't be a problem. FIVE minutes won't even be a problem!

I honestly didn't know I had it in me.