Week 9 - The Final Week!

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 3 miles (or 30 minutes).

I decided to just lump this whole week into one post since basically every run was the same and, quite frankly, there is nothing much to say about them other than they sucked. :)

For some reason the last two weeks I've just been in a funk about running. I only ran two nights this week instead of three; Sunday and Thursday.

Although I was excited about returning to the track a few weeks ago, mainly for my knees, I'm really starting to think it has had a very negative effect on my motivation.

Something about the boring repetitiveness of running around in circles for 30 minutes?

For me, there's no 'goal' at the track...no destination I feel I need to push myself to reach. I can see my car the entire time...its calling for me to jump in and drive home. There's no 'scary' woods to run your ass off through to make it out alive...no crazy guys sitting at picnic tables...no deer waiting to jump out and attack you.

I miss that.

Last night was the last official run of the Couch 2 5K program for me...and even though I still do not feel like I ended it strong, or that I'm anywhere near ready to run an entire 5K, I'm pretty proud of myself for sticking it out for the 9 (actually 10) weeks.

This morning I'm registering for the race next Saturday. Something I've been putting off, but now there is no reason too.

We plan on spending all of next week running the actual race route at the race site. I'm hoping to do that at least three days next week, if not more.

I'd really like to try and run this weekend some too, but the summer weather has returned in full force finally....today and tomorrow the temps is going to be at or very close to 100.

That makes me very nervous...I'm watching the weather like a hawk waiting to see what next Saturday holds....last week they predicted 84 for a high on race day, but we all know how accurate the weather is that far out....I'm hoping, praying, they are right...there would be nothing worse then to have spent the last 10 weeks of your life preparing for a race that you will kneel over and die running in the first 5 minutes because of the heat and humidity.

That would be the ultimate let down. :)