Day 55
All kinds of sleep issues and a little bit of fatigue kept me from my usual schedule, so it’s Wed./Fri./Sun. this week.
5 minutes walking
12 of the toughest minutes ever jogging, jeez that first hill in Holmdel is a bitch/2 minutes walking
9 minutes jogging (supposed to be 8, but I dogged it after that first hill so I made it up here)/2 minutes walking (supposed to be 1, but I was still dogging it)
probably about 9 minutes jogging here (made it to the 8 minute mark, kept going a ways to make up some more time, but forgot to check my watch at the end when I stopped to talk to some JSRC folk)/2 minutes walking back to my car
Total time: around 41 minutes for a 37 minute workout (damn, that hill makes my hill look like a speck of dirt)
Total mileage: 2.21 miles
The main course at the Wednesday evening JSRC run (which had about 5 other members that I know of aside from myself participating) is a pretty brutal 5K course, very hilly, and I did about 2/3 of it. I was totally gassed after that first hill, but evened things out so that my breath was actually stronger during the last third of my workout than the first two thirds. Shins took a beating because of all the hills, so I might not do that course more than once every few weeks, unless I make it to Friday with no ill effects.
And with that, we’ll talk more about this whole “running” thing then.