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Sep. 20th, 2014 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angrbodaHusband and I have struck a deal. As in, I told him I had decided it and he said it sounded very reasonable.
I want a Kenwood kitchen machine (or similar, but I'm attracted to Kenwood because I know it's excellent quality. I only need to ask my mother in law who is still using the very same machine she got as a wedding present over 30 years ago and it has only recently developed a fault.) These are mighty expensive, though.
However, I have been putting a lot of effort into c25k and I've made it, slowly but surely, halfway through the program now.
I've tried the program twice before now and never made it all the way through. If I can make it to the 5K this time, I have definitely earned myself a reward and a big one too!
The Kenwood shall be my reward.
(Don't know which model yet. Probably one that can do as many things as possible. There's time enough to figure that out if it becomes relevant)
As it turns out prizes = motivation = energy!
I did my fastest ever time on this route today and I definitely feel ready for week 5 day 2 next time.
I can't guarantee that some of that speed wasn't also brought on by the fact that I cut a small corner through some grass at the side of the road. The grass was wetter than I thought it would be, so I had to do two thirds of the session with wet socks. I can't abide wet socks!
All in all, socks aside, it went really well today. I didn't have the nearly-cramping problem and I had energy to play a bit with different speeds on all three runs, mostly the middle one, and I knew I'd get a good time when I finished the last run at almost the same spot as I finished it last time, even though I had started Evil Laura a couple of minutes earlier this time. I just didn't know it would be my fastest ever time on this route.
Today I feel quite certain I'm going to make it through the program this time. No 5K = no Kenwood may play a small role there, but even so! Optimistic cat is optimistic.
(crossposted from my own journal)
I want a Kenwood kitchen machine (or similar, but I'm attracted to Kenwood because I know it's excellent quality. I only need to ask my mother in law who is still using the very same machine she got as a wedding present over 30 years ago and it has only recently developed a fault.) These are mighty expensive, though.
However, I have been putting a lot of effort into c25k and I've made it, slowly but surely, halfway through the program now.
I've tried the program twice before now and never made it all the way through. If I can make it to the 5K this time, I have definitely earned myself a reward and a big one too!
The Kenwood shall be my reward.
(Don't know which model yet. Probably one that can do as many things as possible. There's time enough to figure that out if it becomes relevant)
As it turns out prizes = motivation = energy!
I did my fastest ever time on this route today and I definitely feel ready for week 5 day 2 next time.
I can't guarantee that some of that speed wasn't also brought on by the fact that I cut a small corner through some grass at the side of the road. The grass was wetter than I thought it would be, so I had to do two thirds of the session with wet socks. I can't abide wet socks!
All in all, socks aside, it went really well today. I didn't have the nearly-cramping problem and I had energy to play a bit with different speeds on all three runs, mostly the middle one, and I knew I'd get a good time when I finished the last run at almost the same spot as I finished it last time, even though I had started Evil Laura a couple of minutes earlier this time. I just didn't know it would be my fastest ever time on this route.
Today I feel quite certain I'm going to make it through the program this time. No 5K = no Kenwood may play a small role there, but even so! Optimistic cat is optimistic.
(crossposted from my own journal)
