#lunchtime run

You guys! I went for a run! I mean, very little running was involved, so I guess I went for a walk? But "I went" is the point here...

Gee whizz it was hot by run o’clock. Thank goodness there was a bit of breeze about. When I got home I raided the garden for lunch. Love Fridays.

Yesterday I finally decided to move on to week 2 of C25K. I was trying to do all of week 1 like in an actual week, but I’m just not running three times a week so it wasn’t happening. So I just figured, let’s do week 2 day 1 and if I make it, let’s say we’re on week 2. It wasn’t always easy, but I did do it, so now I’m on week 2.

I’m in the office one day a week, so basically I run one day a week... someday I’ll pick it up and do two days in a week?

As far as the week one challenge, there is a 5K every year in late Sept. or early Oct. (this year it’s Sept. 21) called the Boobs and Beer run. As you may have gathered from the name, it’s a fundraiser for breast cancer research, and you get a beer token from a local brewery in your swag bag (they host an after party with food vendors and a bouncy house for kids and the whole nine yards). It’s an un-timed fun run, and it’s on literally the same route I almost always run, but I usually do it anyway. But I’m not going to sign up just yet, because my company usually throws in a sponsorship and gets a few entries in return, and our HR gal always opens those up to the women in the office first, so if that happens and I can do it for free, even better. 

Hard to believe where I was sitting to cool down will be under water in a few weeks. Bring on summer!

My plan is to do day 3 on Saturday, but I’m also real bad at making myself workout on the weekends, especially if it’s a workout that’s not done at home. But it also hasn’t been that long since I did the first couple weeks of this training, so if I miss it I think I’ll be OK to move on to week 2 next week anyway.

Apparently when I did week 1 of 10K training a while ago, that was a false start in terms of both weather and motivation. Thought about starting over, but that would mess up my bullet journal 10K page (I probably should’ve included space for do-overs there) so I pushed on to week 2 instead. I need to work on the non-running parts of running, namely remembering to throw all the necessary gear in my bag and charging my watch and headphones.