W2D1

Polished :-)

In my first run my shins were hurting again, but it was only for a little while. After that there were no muscle aches.
During my second run I was so out of breath and all wobbly in the legs. When the Get Running lady told me: 45 seconds to go, I thought she was going to say 15 seconds to go. Ack! I couldn't run anymore. With every step I sent out a little prayer: 15 seconds to go now please, 15 seconds to go, please. And right when she announced the last 15 seconds "No Hay Igual" by Nelly Furtado started playing and I was able to pick myself up again and those last 15 seconds were a (slow haha) breeze. Just goes to show what a mental struggle running is.
During the rest of the runs my legs were absolutely fine though. I think I ran run 3 way too fast and I had trouble breathing properly. Runs 4, 5 and 6 were much better in terms of pacing and breathing.

I still have no major muscle soreness, which is amazing to me. I was so expecting to wake up in pain for the next few months!

I feel good about W2D2 now. I can handle it, I know! I'm still little apprehensive about week 3 coming up though, but I'm sure that by W2D3 I'll feel ready for it. Or not! haha

I also downloaded a 200 crunches in 6 weeks program, because I feel like my core strenght is going to be the key to good running posture. I did the initial test and my grand total is 7...hmm Now this I am going to feel in my musles tomorrow! I already feel it now. I'm just going to do that program on the running days too. I'll have sports days and rest days.

Tobi loved the run today. He was a bit better at not going too fast - apart from during run 6. Maybe I had gotten very very slow by then though? Anyway, he wanted to pull me faster, but my breathing wouldn't let me, so I stopped him from pulling me.
The rest of the time he was brilliant though. He was happily running along with me, ignoring other dogs, not staying behind to sniff things for too long. We had a great time!

W2D2..here we come!