So yesterday was mostly a wash. I didn't weight lift because I had an 8 am appointment. I did walk to Rite Aid to pick up a prescription for Little Runner with a round trip tally of something like 6,000 steps. But I sort of tanked the weight loss efficacy by buying a pack of Red Vines and eating them on the way home - but man were they good! If you are going to eat crap you darn well better actually enjoy it while you are doing it.
This morning I got off to a late start because Little Runner decided to get up at 4 am instead of 5 am. *sigh* I got him some breakfast and put Thomas the Tank Engine on TV and fell asleep on the couch until 6:30 am. I didn't get to the park to run until about 7:10 am. But the weather was nice and reasonably cool so my late start did not screw the run up.
I decided to up my running time from 3 minutes to 3 minutes 30 seconds + 2 minutes walking for 6 intervals. In the past, every time I increased my running time I spent the last 30 seconds sucking wind and praying for the "you can walk now" beep from my stopwatch. Not today! I was surprised every time the walk beep went off. I could have kept running and I was not praying for it to end! A miracle occurred! I am actually getting better at running. My fantasy of running a marathon doesn't seem as implausible now as it did when I was gasping for breath after every 30 second running sprint. Progress is amazingly motivating. I now have to restrain myself from increasing my running time on Saturday morning. I need to stay at this new interval time for at least 3 sessions so that I can make progress without injury. But I feel like dancing a cha cha every time I think about how much easier running is getting for me. And I think I could do a few minutes of the cha cha without sucking wind!
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