Day 9

I’m in so much pain. My calves are incredibly stiff and it feels like my tailbone is broken, but apparently it’s just the muscles around the tailbone, according to Scott.

That said, yesterday I got to 2.2 miles, which is awesome. I kept my jogging at 4.8mph and walking from 3.3–3.5mph. I think speeding up my walking helped. However, I did have a fair amount of trouble breathing this time around. I think it’s because I had pizza for breakfast. I kept feeling the need to hiccup, and that does NOT feel comfortable at all during a run.

It’s really cool to see the people who can run for many minutes straight. I am assuming that my training is meant to get me closer to that point, but I’m wondering if I should just repeat week 3 until I feel like I can run those 3 minutes straight without feeling too winded.

I think I deserve my rest day today. I took the bus instead of walking my usual 2.5 miles in the morning. It was lazy, yes, but I had walked after my Monday run and then walked again on Wednesday in addition to running another 2 miles, so I think it’s about time to give my poor muscles some time to rest and rebuild.

I’m gonna try to run again tomorrow, I think. I should be healed by then. Hopefully no one will be looking to get lunch with me.