January 10 - Running & Cycling!

Running:
0:35:18 || 2.8 mi || 12:32 min/mi || 163 bpm

One of the things I love about exercise is that it is a really good chance to get out of my head for a while. I just focus on running and running-related things. I tried really hard to focus on keeping my pace slow/reasonable instead of stopping or obsessing over time. Every time I wanted to check my watch to see how much longer I had to run for I instead checked my pace and made sure it was under 6mph (I had the mode set to cycling because I keep forgetting to change it back).

It ended up making me feel much less like a failure when my run today was sooo much better than previous days. I'm still doing c25k w6d1 (run 5 min/walk 3 min/run 8 min/walk 3 min/run 5 min) because I always get stalled in w6. I ran entirely through the two 5 min runs without stopping and only stopped twice (for 30 seconds or less) during the 8 min run. I also ran through most of my 5 min cool-down, but I usually don't count minutes on this and just run as much as I feel like. All in all a much better run than before, happy happy! I'm glad I did better because if I had done worse on this run I probably would've come home and climbed into bed and not left for the remainder of the day.





Then I did more stuff!

Cycling:
0:21:41 || 3.4 mi || 9.5 mph || 170 bpm || light hills
0:23:51 || 3.9 mi || 9.8 mph || 176 bpm || light hills
ride to & from the used bookstore! the ride there seemed like it was entirely uphill and was really hard and I felt like a wimp but then I got home and my boyfriend was like "your back tire is really flat that's why it was hard".

Oh. Yeah I guess that would have something to do with it!

Original purpose for going to bookstore was to put in an application there but I ran into the girl I picked up the application from and she told me to come back Thursday morning when the manager was there and give it to the manager myself because apparently the manager works better when she can put a face with a name. So I will go back on Thursday, though I probably won't bike up because it will be really soon after my morning run. I was hoping to bike to school Thursdays but I'm not going to ride my bike home at midnight when my pity shift at the library is over.