Couch Potato to 5K Week 3

Lovely sister (Joanne) returns but turned traitor almost instantly deciding would join me on quest for real fitness.  Now have no way to give up.  Can’t face facebook fall out from abandoning quest as Joanne begins (blast the fact that have 60 mutual facebook friends) .  Now have to be responsible older sister and pave the way for younger sibling.  On top of running, lovely sister has decided to start diet, now am compelled to join in other wise will look even larger by comparison.  So now diet and fitness all part of daily routine.  Only good bit is fab new iPhone app that tracks calories and exercise.  Now exercise gives extra calories for yummy treats.  Finally exercise has a point.  Am sharing link so others too can enjoy yummy twix bar on diet.

http://www.mynetdiary.com/iPhone.html

So am up at crack of dawn with lovely sister doing power walking warm up and we got wolf whistled!! Yes true!! Then they yelled “guapas” (pretty in Spanish)! Lovely sister of course yelled “gracias” as is only polite thing to do and our Mother would expect it, plus to be quite honest we were really grateful – clearly all this exercise has really started to pay off!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Drive by compliments are really a great way to start the day!

Week three, was, shall we say a big shock to the system.   Last week was up to running in 90 second stints compared to 60 second ones in week 1.  Well this week has jumped to include 2 lots of 3 minutes.   When Laura said had to do 3 minutes of running nearly turned around and went back to bed.   However, was half way through my warm up walk and was with lovely sister (who looks up to me as wonderful older example) so gave it a go.  Laura was right! Did it! Amazingly.

Lovely sister Joanne completed week 1 without a hic-cup probably mainly due to excellent advice about footwear from lovely more experienced older sister.

Can not say that enjoy the running part (or even the walking part) but do quite like feeling afterwards when have done it.   Yes it’s nice – it’s over, and don’t have to do it again for 48 hours!  Is that normal?  Maybe that’s the high of excerising that people talk about, just turns out that it’s a high from finishing!  Yes have found bit can enjoy, finishing!!

Sister in law, Abi,  inquired  as to exercise burn status and following conversation ensued on face book;

Abi: Has the burn gone?

Me: NO :0( xx

Abi: But it feels nice, yeah? ;o)

Me: Again Abi NO :0( xx

Move on to week 4 with much trepidation!