Payback

As previously mentioned, I'm in the middle of week four for C25K. I should be done with it and ready to start week five, but Thursday kicked my ass. Having kind of learned my lesson on pacing, I didn't overdo it on the first three intervals so as to not curse the final five minute run and all associated with it to the deepest bowels of Hell, but alas! I couldn't keep jogging, giving up after about a minute. I don't know if it was a hydration issue, the result of eating a less than I normally do before heading out, a shoddy night's sleep, or a point somewhere in a diabolical Venn diagram of the three. Since I didn't finish it, the day didn't count and I had to redo it.

Fortunately, I kicked it's ass right back today.

Linus mentioned experiencing that burst of extra speed you often see runners produce at the end of a race, and I had it for the first time today during the last minute of the last run. But of course, being me and all, I kicked it to an unsustainable speed and had to dial it back a little. All the same, it was pretty damn awesome. Week four lost it's power of intimidation; week five, on the other hand...

Back in the ring to take another swing,
Regis