Matt Gets Running

I changed my mind! Some encour­age­ment from the Live­Journal C25K com­munity came at exactly the right time. I still had some energy, it had stopped rain­ing, there was at least half an hour of day­light left…

So I went. And I’m just back from my first run of Week 2. Huzzah!

It wasn’t easy, though. The worst thing was that I’d had din­ner. And not a par­tic­u­larly light din­ner, at that. So that weighed me down. And hav­ing to run around the puddles didn’t help much.

But, aided by yet another Genius playl­ist — kicked off from The Go! Team’s Doing It Right, and fin­ish­ing, rather iron­ic­ally, on The Prim­it­ives’ Crash (“here you go/way too fast/don’t slow down you’re gonna cra-a-ash…”) — I man­aged it.

So, I guess that’s another les­son learned: if there’s a chance, no mat­ter how slim, that you’ll actu­ally get out and run, then go for occa­sional graz­ing style eat­ing, rather than a big lump. Oth­er­wise you’ll be car­ry­ing that big lump around with you for a half-hour…