Couch to 5k

Are you sitting down right now? Cause you might need to be.

No! Not like that, Mr. RH and I are not married and expecting a baby. CALM DOWN!

Moving along.

I just finished Week 6 of Couch to 5k.

That's right, I've been exercising at least 3 times a week for the past 6 weeks and this is the first time I'm posting about it. I know, I don't even know who I am anymore either.

If you've been reading this blog for most any length of time, you know that I hate exercise. HATE IT. Loathe.

In 2009 I completed a successful course of the 30 Day Shred with an awesome group of bloggy ladies. It was good and I enjoyed it, but my knees were killing me and I promptly dropped off the wagon on the 28th of September. NICE!

Since then, I have done the Shred intermittently (most recently in March) but I could never really get into it. I always wimped out and ended up quitting a couple of minutes early - which is lame because the workout is about 25 minutes long.

I had seen the couch to 5k hype on twitter and I was intrigued, but my dad talked me out of it. My dad has been doing triathlons since I can remember and runs at least 3 times a week.

And one day, after a particularly uninspired round of The Shred, I downloaded couch to 5k. And sat on it for a week.

Took my time adding a playlist. Which, come to think of it, needs updated badly. I am sick of all my songs!

My first week, I thought I might die. It wasn't so much the running - the moving of my feet - that was hard so much as it was my cardiovascular un-fitness. I was out of shape!

Since then, I try and do the program every other day. I plan it around my work schedule (I don't run if I have an 8 am meeting) and I don't skip, even on the weekends. I find that the days that I run I am starving all day but also super-energetic.

I'm finally drinking the Kool-Aid and am totally feeling a tiny twinge of the exercise high that everyone always talks about (and I never understood).

Today's goal was 25 minutes of uninterrupted running. If you had asked me to do that 6 weeks ago, I probably couldn't have made it around the block. Did I have to take about 1.5 minutes of walking breaks? Yes I did, although I think that has to do with the ungodly heat and humidity Indiana's torturing me with.

Anyway, this post doesn't have much of a point except to say:
A) Couch to 5k is kinda awesome
B) running means you can consume more margaritas/ice cream/Mexican food/junk with your new BOYFRIEND with fewer fat rolls and
C) I am awesome.

Carry on. Happy Tuesday.