I’ve found out that the biggest part of doing this running routine is mental for me. I’m on the second week of it. The first week was warm up at a walk for 5 minutes, then jog 60 seconds and then walk 90 seconds. Repeat until you get 20 minutes which is 8 repeats of the run/walk. Week 2 was to be just the opposite jog 90 seconds/walk 60. So that’s 8 repeats again.
When it came time to start the jog 90 seconds my brain was convinced that there was no way on earth I could do it. 90 seconds, are you nuts? But I went really slow (for you horse people out there think western pleasure jog) and I was fine. On the second day of this I went faster and still did fine. This is totally amazing to me!
I have one more day this week of this routine so I just decided to look ahead and see what next week brings. Guess what? I’m not supposed to be running 90/walking 60 for 8 repeats. I’m supposed to be running 90/walking 120 for 5 repeats. And, I’ve noticed by doing the math that I’m not supposed to be doing my repeats for 20 minutes. I’m supposed to be doing the walking warmup PLUS the repeats for a total of 20 minutes. You know what this means?????
I’m overachieving at running! And it still seems easy to me.
Un-freakin-believable!
But my brain is already freaking out about the next bump in the routine. Jog 90 seconds/walk 90 seconds/jog 3 minutes/ walk 3 minutes (repeat twice). Run 3 minutes – I’ll believe it when I see it!
