C25K Week 2 run 3 and Vampires . . . .

So I have just got back from the park. I actually set my alarm at 6.30am and got up and made myself eat a banana for energy. Then went back to bed for a half hour, got up again and slung on a tracksuit. Fed my goldfish who looked at me as if to say "are you crazy women. Do you know what time it is on a sunday morning?" Decided to ignore them and made myself stretch really well. I got up really early to try avoid anyone seeing me. Hell knows a red faced fat girl trying to run is not the worlds nicest thing to watch. That failed miserably as immediatly one of the women from the cafe round the corner saw me and the nice coloured bloke who says hello to me every morning on the way to work appeared out of nowhere gave me a funny look and then waved across the road to me. So no doubt the neighbourhood gossip chain will have the news out that "Debbie went exercising sunday morning". Honestly you would think my lot have nothing better to do that gossip. Well actually none of them work and most of them drink all day so I guess they have to talk about something . . . . I'm sure by the time I got get my sunday paper Mr Patel will be asking me about it.

Anyway the session went like this:

• 5 min walk warm up to the park. Had to stop the mp3 as I hadn't made it to the park by 5 mins and "Laura" was going to tell me to run."
• After successfully navigating myself over the road, a couple of funny stares for some pedestrians I got to the park and resumed the podcast. I started jogging on the grass. Realised it was in fact totally different to on a treadmill.  I was also going up hill. Made it to where the swings were and thought I can't do this. Stopped. Then amazing to my surprise my subconscious mind suddenly yelled at me, "You can do it. How is it any different really." So I listened and resumed jogging. I think I lost about 10 seconds of the 90 sec jog. 
• Walked 2 mins. This seemed to go really fast.
• "Laura" told me to run again. I resumed jogging. Mentally set myself a track round the grass. Again struggled going uphill. My mind reasoned it doesn't matter how fast you do it just do it." So I continued abeit slowly.
• Walked 2 mins. Starting to get hot and sweaty.
• "Laura" told me to jog again but gave me some advice about breathing. Start on left leg breath in and count to 4 then breath out. Decided to try it. It seemed to work quite well. I continued on my slow jog. Suddenly was surprised 90 secs was over. 
• Walked 2 mins.
• Jogged again. Did the breathing. Same out come. 90 secs was over fast. Was beginning to like that I wasn't jogging and thinking come on whens this over!
• Walked 2 mins. Saw a dude walking his dog. He looked at me like I had 2 heads or something. Decided I could go 2 ways here. Either get self conscious and stop or value all the hard work I had done to get to this point. So I went with the later, flashed him and the dog a smile and got on with my next jog.
• Jogged 90 secs. Again it surprised me how fast it went.
• Walked 2 mins. 
• Did my last jog. Another dog walker. Again the session finished really quickly. 
• Actually rather geekily did some sort of victory punch in the air when "Laura" announced the cool down. Found myself saying breathlessly."I did it!"
• Walked back to my flat proudly, stretched then drank some water to rehydrate and devoured half a small tub of cottage cheese for protien repair. Kurt at the gym would be so proud of me. Look Kurt Im listening to you and trying to follow your eating plan advice!!!!!!
• Showered and decided to share with the world my success on my blog.

The thing I did like about doing it outside was you don't feel like you get so hot as the wind is blowing. Also the grass was nicer to run on than a treadmill. So the plan is now, try week 3 on tues and thurs at the gym and hopefully I will do the park again next sunday. Best of both worlds then. Im getting the fitnesses training in on the treadmill and the experience on the grass properly outside (abeit slower jogging) as well.

Anyway did you all see the moon last night. Wasn't it gorgeous. It got to 8 pm and I decided to go for a quick walk. I called on my mate Grant who lives up the road to see if he wanted to see it too but was informed he was in the bath so I left him to it, walked down to grovener road where the playing fields were and just stood there for about 10 mins enjoying it. I also called my brother and suggested he put the kids in the car and take them for a drive so they could witness the beauty too especially as it would be 20 yrs before it happened again. Then I found myself texting my friend Vern in Halifax to see if it was just as beautiful over there. He came back and informed me it was actually a blood moon and that Vampires on this night deem all blood not good enough to eat. That got me thinking about vampires and the fact I haven't really been writing about the paranormal side and mysteries I promised. So I'm going to do another blog now dedicated to Blood suckers.