Here We Go Again

Tonight I went out and did Couch 2 5K's week two, day one workout AGAIN...and it felt like the first time I did it! I'm definitely not to the point where it starts getting easier yet. In fact, it seemed harder. I'm going to chalk that up to missing the one workout though.

Is it weird to say that I hated but also loved my workout? lol It was hard physically but it cleared my head of all the BS that went on during the day, which I was so grateful for. My knees and ankles started bothering me a little but once I got warmed up they were fine. I just hope I still feel fine tomorrow morning! I wasn't sure I was going to get out there tonight given the morning I had with leg pain. I woke up very early this morning (really yesterday morning if you take into account the time at which I'm writing this) with a pretty bad headache. I have suffered from migraines since I was ten years old. I take Inderal daily as a preventative measure against migraines, but when I feel one coming on I have a prescription for Imitrex...which works really well, but I also have some side effects with it. It makes me sleepy, nauseous, and makes all my nerves hyper sensitive. Its the hyper sensitive nerves that bother me the most and this morning, as I was taking the Imitrex, I was nervous as to how that would effect my leg pain. I found out about 30 minutes later when I couldn't fall back asleep because my legs were KILLING ME!!! Thankfully my side effects subside after about 30 minutes so the pain went away.

I know I mentioned that I was relieved for the workout because of all the BS from today...I just want to say that my day was not total BS. I had quite a bit of fun with my kids outside today. First I had Isabel in her walker outside while I pitched a plastic baseball to Jacob and Nathan and then after sitting on the grass under a tree in our front yard and Jacob laying out a small blanket to lay on...I went inside and got a couple more blankets and some toys for the baby and we hung out on the blankets in the shade for about an hour and a half or so. I really enjoyed myself and I think the kids did too!

I was planning to start some cross training this week instead of just walking every day that I don't do the C25K, but my little brother is graduating from high school this weekend and tomorrow all of the graduates from our local high schools walk in a parade downtown so that family and friends can shower congratulatory balloons and flowers upon them! Its a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to seeing how my kids enjoy it. My other little brother graduated a couple years ago and my boys went to the parade, but I don't think they remember it.

Here's my splits...pleasantly surprised with my average paces during my running intervals! : ) No wonder it felt harder...I was running faster. ; )
 

		Day One	Day Two	Day Three	Day One	Day Two	Day Three
C25K Week 2	Time	Distance	Distance	Distance	Avg Pace	Avg Pace	Avg Pace
1	05:00.0	0.28	0.27	0.26	18:10	18:17	19:12
2	01:30.0	0.13	0.12	0.13	11:45	12:08	11:34
3	02:00.0	0.10	0.10	0.10	20:27	20:35	20:25
4	01:30.0	0.12	0.12	0.13	12:13	12:45	11:57
5	02:00.0	0.09	0.09	0.11	21:22	21:36	18:58
6	01:30.0	0.11	0.12	0.12	13:49	12:50	12:00
7	02:00.0	0.09	0.10	0.10	21:08	20:59	19:25
8	01:30.0	0.11	0.10	0.13	13:09	14:43	11:58
9	02:00.0	0.10	0.10	0.10	20:38	21:01	20:48
10	01:30.0	0.11	0.11	0.12	13:57	13:16	12:55
11	02:00.0	0.10	0.10	0.10	19:37	20:58	20:31
12	01:30.0	0.10	0.11	0.11	14:25	13:46	13:16
13	02:00.0	0.10	0.10	0.10	19:41	20:33	20:46
14	04:00.0	0.22	0.18	0.19	18:33	22:11	20:46

The other day I was wondering if I'd ever have two pace times be exactly the same! I had thought it was very unlikely, but apparently I kept an extremely consistent pace for my last walking interval and cool down. : )

I hope everyone has a great Thursday!