C25K Day 1

This morning I did my first day of C25K. It actually wasn’t that bad. I’m glad I did straight walking and then walking interspersed by jogging last week as a warm up for this. But even then doing 1 minute of jogging followed by 1.5 minutes of recovery wasn’t -too- bad.

I’m listening to a podcast of music where the podcaster pops in to tell me when I should be running/walking. I did kind of sneer to myself when the announcer said “you should be able to talk while running”. Yeah right. I can talk while running as long as “Yeah /gasp /pant I can /gasp /pant talk /gasp /pant while running” is considered “talking while running”. My body is definately getting a wake-up call in this and hasn’t yet figured out controlled breathing while jogging. I persevere.

I ended the run with a slight pain in the outside of my right calf. I -think- that means I need to stretch better. Teh Intarwebz isn’t being very forth coming about it. Current plan is to do wall stretches and concentrate on breathing.

As I said on Facebook.. I didn’t die so it’s bound to get better.