Dreadful Jogging

Hey it's Ashley.  Last week Caitlin and I both hit a wall in the jogging world.  I got sick and there was no way I was going to jog, but luckily I did make it to the gym a few times and became better friends with the elliptical.    Last week was pretty discouraging, and I thought to myself "I am just under 290 lbs and there is no way I can run 90 seconds!"  90 seconds intervals is suppose to be week 2 of the C25K.  So when I got sick I secretly thought "thank you Jesus I can put off the running".  Isn't that awful?  This week when Monday came around I knew I had to start running again.  After running for a minute, I realized that when you are training your body for anything, that when you take a week off it will set you backwards.  I was proud of myself for running and not giving up.  Today came along and I knew I had to push myself.  Instead of running the 90 seconds, I increased the amount of intervals.  I went from jogging 8 laps of 60 seconds each to 10 laps.  I figure that if I gradually increase this every week, that I will be training my body for the endurance of running a longer time as I am loosing weight.  Lets face it I am not exactly fit and the standard body fit of a person that starts the C25K program.  But let me tell you, if I have to start my running career by tweaking the program to running more laps then running time then I will do that, and sometime in 2011 I will be able to cross off my New Years Resolution of running a 5k.  Don't give up on your fitness goals for this year, but tweak what will make it right for you to keep going instead of wanting to give up. I guarantee it will get you to be more successful this year.