Week 1, Run 4

Another day, another run down. I was supposed to show someone this plan today but they rescheduled on me. So I may or may not be running with someone on Friday, we will see. But I have known all along this is my journey, as it should be. I am doing this for myself and in a lot of ways it is easier not to be committed to doing this with anyone else - i can hit the road when i am ready and not schedule it too heavily other than the day. Today I ran earlier than ever because the weather is so ick i had to run while it wasnt raining and i didnt want to chance the early morning break being the only one we get.

I am at a cross roads. My pace is definately getting better and I know this is good, and with that I am assuming I am getting stronger as my recovery time is getting shorter after the run is finished. I am still very grateful for the 90 sec walk intervals. I can get through the 60 sec run intervals and only the last 5 or so secs of each one do i truely want to die. Does this mean next week I should start week two? This is where I am unsure.

The pros for this is i am getting better at this and I have taken a lot of itme off my original pace - over a minute. I could slow down to try week 2 next week. The cons are that i still am not finding week 1 easy. Is this supposed to ever get easy or just less hard?

I mean, I can always try week 2 then drop back down to week 1 if its too much. Which might be what I do. We shall see. For the moment, I am taking heart in the fact I am still doing this, and still improving and that has to be worth something. It is also teaching me the value of doing it for myself.