Exercise NSV's! woohoo!

madfroglady · October 1, 2007

I had TWO great exercise NSV's this morning. I have been walking & running (couch potato to 5k program) for nearly a month now, using the bike bath near my house.

NSV #1: I ran (ha! that is an overstatement of my very slow jog) 22 out of 40 minutes I was working out. All the way from my starting point to the bottom of the big hill (15 minutes) then turned around and walked back up the hill and ran (7 minutes) back to my start. Woo!

NSV #2: just as I was ending my run, I was very tired and wanted to try to keep running back to the start but wasn't sure I could. I see the same people on the path every day, including one lady with her huge black poodle. This morning, she smiled at me as I was running my last tenth of a mile, and said "I wish I had your energy!" I was so flabergasted I had to ask her to repeat it to make sure I heard her correctly. Then I laughed! Tomrrow I'll have to make sure I tell her how much it meant to me to hear her say that.

:whoo:

I'm really starting to love this running thing.

Frog.

areellady · October 1, 2007

Congrats!!! I do the couch to 5k too!! I am stuck on week 4 for now. I just can't see doing more right now. My knee starts to hurt if I jog much more than the 5 minutes at a time.

Jachut · October 1, 2007

Yay for you! If you can do 22 minutes, there'll be no stopping you. Cardiovascularly you're already fit enough to do way more if you can do that. It just takes time for your lower body to strengthen up enough to get you through it!

Well done!