Self-Doubt Can Suck it!

Today was a day I had been worried about. The 1st 3 weeks of 5K training were pretty easy- and by "easy", I mean the running was fairly balanced with walking. (And by the way, I still can't even believe I am running at all.) But week 4 was the week where things were gonna get real. Week 4 involves running sets of 5 min and 3 min broken up by shorter walking spurts. I wasn't so worried about the time amounts- I've done 5 min increments before- but I was concerned about the low recovery walk time. Would I be able to do it? Could I actually run 5 minutes, walk 90 seconds, and then pick back up and run 3 min- over and over and over?

Well, you can suck it, Self-Doubt! I did it! And what's even better is that it wasn't too bad. Dare I say I actually enjoyed it? In fact, to get my full 40 min of cardio in, I ran 6 min at the end just to wrap it up. I'm so proud of myself that I would undoubtedly be irritating to be around at this time.