Couch to 5k - first day
20 minutes - 60 seconds jog, 90 seconds walk...rinse and repeat. I can now definitively say that 60 minutes walking is no comparison to the minimal jog-walking I did. Good reality check.
On a silly note, the universe did decide to laugh at me today.
So, I packed my "bag of virtue" this morning--a nice tote given to me as a gift this Christmas--with my new running shoes, t-shirt, hoodie and workout leggings. When the time came to change at work, my computer was having ongoing issues with Adobe, and the Sys Ad had come to work on the problem. He's a big guy, and he sat at my computer with a friendly but terse, "Weren't you supposed to be gone already?" Because he's a big guy, he takes up a fair amount of room. So, with an apology, I grabbed my Bag of Virtue and scuttered off to the ladies room.
I changed, rolled up my work clothing and put it into the tote for wearing again later and came back to the office to put the bag under my desk.
"I thought you were supposed to be gone..." said the Sys Ad.
"I am! I am!" I protested. "I'm just getting assembled!" I grabbed my iPhone, which has a timer/lap counter, and headed for the door. "I'm gone!" I said.
"You have witnesses to that," the Sys Ad said, nodding at my officemate.
Sure enough, once he said that, I was jinxed. I made it to the front gate and realized I didn't remember my intervals. But fortunately, I had printed the Couch to 5K program and it was sitting on my desk. "Damn," I grumbled to the office manager, "I just told them I was leaving and now I have to go back." I also realized as I was doing so that my workout pants were capris and I had not shaved in...er... far too long. Oh well, I'll be changing back into work clothing soon anyway.
I went back to get my printout and reached past the redoubtable Sys Ad, who was eying me with slight annoyance. I didn't notice that he had placed a full bottle, uncapped, of Starbucks Frappuccino on my desk, atop my papers. When I picked up my printout, I bumped the bottle which tipped over and baptized my desk with nasty-fake-smelling Starbucks Coffee derivative product. All my papers got soaked. My mouse got soaked. My scanner got soaked. The rug on the floor got soaked. Oh... and my Bag of Virtue with my change of clothing? Yep, it got soaked, too.
And to top it off, the Sys Ad was irritated because I'd cost him his drink.
I hastily cleaned things up as best I could, resigned myself to remaining in sweaty, unshaved-leg-baring workout clothing for the rest of the day, and scrambled to flee the office. Once outside, I did my five minute warmup, casting worried looks at the sky. But while it was looking like rain, the weather held admirably...
... until I hit the lap timer to begin my first 60 second jog. At that point, the skies opened up and poured on me. And it continued to rain non-stop for my entire workout--the 20 minute walk/jog and the 40 minute remainder of my walk. It rained all through the time I was at Subway as well.
And when it came time for me to return to the office?
Yep. The sun broke through and shone the whole way. The universe is definitely giggling.
BUT I DID IT ANYWAY! BWAH HA HA HA!
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P.S. My thanks to BettyBaker, who inspired me to try this program. No, really, I AM thanking her! :)