Met Tarkwin outside the gym at 10:00, with both of us feeling good – perhaps it’s something to do with it being the start of the day, rather the end of a tiring day like it usually is during the week. Paid attention to what I was doing this morning and managed to complete all of the exercises without any ill effects. I’m still not doing what the programme specifies (e.g. I’m doing 10 mins on the treadmill rather than 15, 4 intervals on the rower rather than 6), but after Thursday I’m not about to make any silly changes.
One thing I have been doing since Thursday is taking the Nike+ kit with me, as the treadmill component of my workout is 50:50 run/walk. By measuring even the pitiful ~0.7 miles it gets me to do in 10 mins, I figure that will allow me to see the entries going up on the Nike+ and Runner+ sites and encourage me to take up running outside the gym again. It also means I can see myself running ‘alongside’ my running friends on Twitter, weird as that may sound.
I’m resigned to the likelihood that I’ll probably need to restart early on in the Couch to 5K plan, but I’ve done it before – I can do it again. Besides, I see fitness as a journey not a destination.
