Nope, I haven't put these on in a week.
Well, that didn’t last long.
Two weeks ago, I was all gung ho. At least, about as gung ho as you can be when you don’t like what you are about to take on.
In this post here, I discussed that despite my hatred of running, I was going to get more serious about doing it on a regular schedule. I picked the program, Couch to 5k. I downloaded a super helpful podcast of the program that would play music, as well as tell me when to start and stop. I joined the facebook fanpage even! Don’t I sound seriously into it?
It took me a week and a half to ruin my streak of keeping with the program.
Impressive, I know.
See, I didn’t just stop because of laziness. I came down with a cold and suddenly my weekend got super busy. I only ran two out of the three scheduled days.
But in a turn of events that is quite different from the normal me, I am sticking with it. If this nine-week program takes me 20 weeks to complete, so be it. My New Years resolution, after all, is “finish what you start.”
My first thought after missing a day was, “well, I’ll just start on the third week Monday. I ran two out of the three days this week. That’s enough.”
It made me feel like a slacker; like I was completely incapable of sticking to anything. All the people that actually enjoy running would be ashamed. And I know and love some of those running enjoyers, as a one-year member of my high school’s cross country team. It only took me one season (it took a lot less than that, but I stuck it out to the end) to realize that running 10 miles a day is not my idea of a good time.
Also, I had read a story last week of a girl who continued to run while having cancer and going through chemotherapy.
So, um, yeah. What was my lame excuse again?
So, we’re going to give it another go, starting on Monday. Couch to 5k Week 2, the REMIX!
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