Week One, Day One

Well, today was my first day W1D1 and I'm very pleased to report that it didn't suck! In fact, I feel like I held up better than I thought I would. The way the first week works is that you have a warm up walk for 5 minutes and then you run for 60 seconds, and walk for 90 seconds and you do 8 intervals of 60 second runs. Then you have your 5 minute cool down. You do this three times a week. Each week increases the running time until finally at week 9, you're running for 30 minutes straight. I didn't find the 60 second stretches too long and I was often surprised when I heard that time was up. So I'm taking that as a very good sign. Granted, I was taking it a very easy pace, but at this point I'm trying to build up stamina, rather than speed.

The hardest part was waking up this morning. I'm still having trouble sleeping through the night for some reason. I go to bed tired, but around 3am I wake up and struggle getting back to sleep. Amelia hasn't helped the situation much these last two nights, she's woken up at 4am wanting to play. So needless to say when my alarm went off at 6:30, I struggled to get up. And looking outside it was dark and wet and looked so cold, I immediately started trying to justify not running. But that's not an option for me, so I bundled up and out I went.

I think I need to rethink my running route though. We've had an unusually high snowfall here in London and the sidewalks still had snow and were a little slippery, so I found myself running in the road. I initially planned on running in Regent's Park, but the pathways there were so full of snow, it was obvious they hadn't been cleared off at all.

So on Wednesday I think I'll try to find some side streets to run on that don't get much traffic. One little incident I had today was that apparently there'd been some horses that had gone down one of the roads I was running, so my running form was a little off as I was trying to keep up my 60 seconds while dodging horse manure at the same time.

Over all though, I'm very pleased with how my first run went. I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow, but hopefully this is a positive beginning.

Good times. I'm very much looking forward to Wednesday!