I went out at 6AM today for another run in the park. The routine today was 90 seconds of running followed by 2 minutes of walking to recover. Rinse and repeat 6 times. I started with the 5 minute warm up and then took off. The first 90 seconds went by pretty quickly but my body reminded me that it expected to stop after 60 seconds. 30 extra seconds make a difference. The first two sets weren't too bad. After the third I was huffing pretty hard. I was so glad that I had reached the halfway point that I forgot to turn around and go back towards my starting point. I didn't realize until I got to the end of the road and thought to myself, "wow, I'm going to go almost 3 miles today" and immediately followed that thought with, "dork, you forgot to turn around!". So I ended up going 2.8 miles in 37 minutes this morning, but walked the last 10 minutes or so instead of the normal 5 minute cool down because of my error.
I intentionally tried to slow my pace today knowing that I was increasing my running intervals by 50% and total time running by a full minute. I must have paced myself fairly well because I had enough left in the last 30 seconds to really sprint it out. My body was screaming at me, but I pushed it anyway. I was completely out of breath after that last sprint, but it felt good to know my body could go even though my mind was telling me I was done.
I still have no significant pain, only minor muscle soreness.
In addition, on Satuday I went with the family to the park and walked about 2.5-2.75 miles.
A quick note about last week. My entries make it sound like it was easy. It was by no means easy, it just wasn't as hard as I had expected it to be after a long hiatus from any meaningful exercise.
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