Am I dreaming?

Oh yeah, I think I may become an official jogger (insert shocked face here).  I had to wait a day to blog because it felt too good to be true.  I was afraid it was a one day crazy high, but turns out, this may stay for awhile.  Based on some feedback from 2 friends, thanks Ann and Jodi, I combined their advice and tried something new.  Paul, the handy dandy stopwatch and I went out for a 3 mile jog/walk.  Jodi talked to be about the Jeff Galloway interval training method and Ann talked to me about jogging slow.  I took both and started interval training with slow jogging.  I start with a 30 second jog, walk for 1:30 seconds, by the middle I was throwing in some 35 seconds of jogging and 1:25 of walking.  Sunday, it took me 49 minutes, but not once did I cry, get angry, have foul words come out of my mouth, in fact afterwards, we went for a 6 mile bike ride.   I enjoyed it, I liked it, it was  . . . FUN!  Crazy right?! 

I was afraid this was maybe a fluke, so I couldn’t bring myself to blog about it Sunday night.  Paul and I went out last night, I had to test this new way of jogging out.  This time, we started with 35 second jogging and 1:25 seconds of walking.  We threw a few 40 second jogging and 1:20 of walking.  In the end I even jogged longer to the finish line because I felt SO good.  Once again, I didn’t  cry, get angry, and no foul words came out of my mouth.  My time last night . . . . 45 minutes.  Oh yeah (dancing in my chair)!  It felt great, I had to push myself, I had to work on my breathing.  The change, it was doable.  I was 100% more comfortable then I was during my last 5K.  I signed up for another one on Memorial Day with the PriorFatPack gang and I’m hoping I have my new Jeff Galloway interval timer in the mail so I can do intervals during the event.

So what did I learn

1-      that yes, I have asthma, and if I don’t deal with it, it kicks my rear end, I must use my inhaler and use it correctly

2-      interval training is for me, I love love love it (still can’t believe I’m typing that)

3-      it’s okay to jog slow, new motto, jog like no one is watching!

4-      be open and willing to take advice from friends and you can tweak it to make it work for you

5-      to always double wrap my icky foot, again, admitting and treating my weaknesses

6-      to get faster and comfortable with anything, I must be consistent in my efforts (meaning trying something more than once and giving up)

7-      that I can be and do anything I’m willing to put the effort in to

Now if I can only get out of the darn 250’s, but it will come, I just need to keep sticking with it.  When I do reach 249, I’m going to know it was because I had the courage to be Unstoppable! 

Unstoppable "becomming a jogger" Mariah