Stress

I've been stressing out. Stressing about the volleyball tournament. Stressing about my successor. Stressing about the termites in the floor. Stressing about the landlord calling and wanting to come over with my house in the state I've let it become. Stressing about paperwork. Stressing about work. Stressing about my belly. Too much stress. It hurts.

So, today after I got off work I drove over to the Kurima Bridge and I did week 1 day 1 of the couch to 5k program. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I mean, dang, if Janine can go from hating running to triathlete, I should be able to run for a freaking 30 minutes, right? Yesterday at my rehab I asked my rehab-guy and he said that because it no longer really hurts, I should be okay with slowing working my way up to running. I just need to listen to my body, really closely, and so long as it doesn't hurt, it should be fine. All good.

So for the first day you're suppose to walk for 5 minutes and then alternate 60 seconds of running and 90 seconds of running for 10 minutes and end with 5 minutes of walking, 20 minutes total. My body didn't want to do 60. So I let it do 30 seconds of running, for 15 minutes and a 10 minute walk at the end. We seemed to be fine with that. What with the 1-2 hour walks we're use to, our endurance is higher than our aerobic ability. So I can work with shorter for longer in the beginning. On day 2 we'll try for 60 again and see how we like it. What's really funny to me is that my body didn't want to run for 60 seconds, but it would have been fine doing the intervals for probably another 10-15 minutes. I wonder if that would be okay . . . Maybe I should try to get to where I can do 60 and then see how long I can hold that interval for . . .