8 Minutes Strong

I did it!  8 minutes!  Today was week 5, day 2 of the couch-to-5k program that I have been doing.  I was a little intimidated. Monday, I jogged for 5 minutes, and felt like I was dying.  Today I had to jog 8 minutes........twice.  How was I going to do 8 minutes?!?!  One step at a time, I decided.  I pressed play on my mp3 player, and when the music signaled to start jogging, I did.  Slow and steady.  "You can do this!" I kept repeating to myself.  "Just think how great it will feel when you can say you've jogged 8 minutes straight!"  - "Just keep going until the music stops" - and I did.  I kept going.  I made it to 8 minutes without dying........than when prompted by the musical signal, I did it again.  I realized toward the end of the second stint what was going through my head as I jogged.  It wasn't "this is hard" or "I'm going to die if I don't stop RIGHT NOW" or "ugh, how much longer?".  Nope.  I was mentally going through my schedule and trying to figure out when/where I'm going to do my third jog of the week.  LOL!  I don't think I have ever planned another jog WHILE jogging.  I got a little chuckle out of that.

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out the when or where yet.  Normally, my third jog would be on Friday.  But because of the holiday, the track is closed all weekend.  Plus, after working my 2 jobs I only have 7 hours left to myself, and I have to use most of that time for sleeping.  Hmmm, jog #3 may have to wait until Sunday.

Again, I am intimidate by the upcoming jog.  The plan says 20 minutes of jogging.  Yikes.  That's a huge jump from 8 minutes.  But, just like today, I will take it one step and a time, and talk myself through it.  And if I have to walk some of it, oh well.  So I walk some of it.