Oh God! We ran week 4 : day 1 (again) today and it was intense. The humidity sucks all your energy out of your body. Luckily, we finished more than we finished Monday, so that's improvement. Plus we ran our fastest mile at 15 minutes! Crazy long for any normal fit people, but much better than 19 minutes. :) Any improvement is good, right?
I was peeking ahead and week 5 : day 3 has us running a full 20 minutes which we are both a little afraid of. But at the same time, we know it's a 9-week program so it could be awesome ya know? I'm just scared about BFF and her heart. I hope that day her hubs will be able to watch the baby because she really needs all energy devoted to that day. Pushing a stroller doesn't help, it hinders, but sometimes she doesn't have a choice.
Anyway, I wonder how I would be if I was doing it solely on my own. I tend to slow down for BFF so we can keep pace with each other because I like running with her, but I do wonder how much different it would be. I don't know about this week, because running 5 minutes is tougher than I thought. 3 minutes was fine, just long... Now 5 minutes is hard to do in an entire block. I did 5 minutes, but I took a break about 1/2 way. So I'm thinking we may have to make this program a bit longer than 9 weeks just because we don't have enough stamina built up yet and we are dealing with excessive heat and humidity.
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