So, I guess I pushed it a bit too far too fast… Or maybe all the walking I did to get to my client site and my polling place detracted my ability to recover from Monday’s attempt at jogging. At any rate, my legs have been sore today! So are the muscles in my chest, from doing pushups last night and Sunday, but that has little to do with my decision to not make the second attempt at jogging this evening.
I found out today that I will be showing a coworker around one of our most fitness-friendly job sites – the Oakland Zoo. We’ll be spending close to two hours walking throughout the park, up and down the hilly paths – probably end up doing close to four miles. After that, we’re headed to San Francisco, to another job site with about a mile round-trip walk from public transportation. To top it off, our work dress code does not permit me to wear the most appropriate shoes for all of this walking. My feet were unhappy enough this morning – I’d like to keep them working as well as possible.
Given all of this, I chose not to attempt a walk-to-run session tonight. However, instead of just skipping it, as I might have previously, I’ve decided to rearrange the workout schedule to accommodate the demands of my job (and get in some extra walking at the same time). I’ve taken today as my rest day instead of Saturday. I will do my third pushups workout for the week after I get home tomorrow. Running sessions will take place Friday after work, and Saturday morning, so that I still get three of those in for this week. Three pushups workouts, three running workouts – that’s the weekly plan.
I’ve also realized that I should probably start off a bit more slowly on the walk-to-run program. Next session will be five intervals sets of one minute jogging and five minutes walking. I’ll see how I feel after that before I decide what the next one will be. Eventually, I WILL get to where I can successfully complete that first workout on the official program!
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