K gearing up for a solo ride.

I was all ready to go with K for a ride to the Admiralty Park trail this morning, but then the skies opened. K likes riding in the rain, but I like not being sick better, so he went without me. I’m sure he’ll come back all happy, wet and muddy.

I’m quite content to stay home this morning because this week is the first week I’ve managed to run at least three times. My distance and speed are still nothing to shout about, but trust me when I say it’s quite an achievement for me to even be able to run longer distances at all! K has been running with me, although at the speed I run, he can actually just walk. I keep telling him to run ahead but I think he’s afraid I’ll roll down the slope or something, so he runs beside me.

Last night, however, I ran on my own because he collapsed into bed right after dinner, and I actually managed to go further than before. So this running thing seems to be working out, although methinks my knees do protest overmuch. I actually find myself looking forward to the next run. We’ve been using a programme that’s similar to Couch-to-5K, but I downloaded the iPhone app for C25K for use when K’s not running with me because it lets me listen to my music and alerts me when it’s time to switch between running and walking whereas when I run with K, he keeps time and tells me when to switch.

This morning, he informs me that we will start tonight, but that I will “walk 1 minute, run 1 minute” and do seven repetitions of that.

“So only 14 minutes?”

“Hello!!! You are a try-athlete at this point.”

Excuuuuuuse me. It’s not like I have never run in my life – at one point I was running the 100m, 200m, 400m and their relays in school ya know. And I’ve been going for lunchtime exercise classes at work, so I definitely can make it through at least one hour of a moderate to high intensity work out. It’s just that I am currently rather – ok, very – unfit compared to my pre-K and pre-baby state, and need to start slow where running is concerned. But since K is definitely more athletic than me and reads up a lot on sports performance because he wants to beat his 40-year old booty into submission, I guess I shall listen to him and run/walk for 14 minutes tonight.

I think I will have roti prata for lunch as a reward for even thinking about this.