Three weeks in, still on week 1 of the app...

[highlyeccentric]

Sigh. Today's effort did result in a complete, non-sabotaged week 1 workout, though. If I made a list of things which have, or which I have *allowed* to derail my adherence to the workout, excluding 'failed to go running at all', it would include:

- deciding to run to work to exchange headphones. Turns out that stopping mid-workout is not a good incentive to resume and complete the workout properly, especially when work is in a part of town with lots of traffic lights one has to wait for. Still, having headphones that don't fall out when running is useful - if only I had remembered to fix that *when not in the middle of running*.
- gas. Why I am prone to burping while jogging (and not during the walking cycles) I do not know, but it is not helpful.
- roadworks. These were loud enough to drown out the 'walk now, run now' prompts, got me all muddled, and I ended up walking for half the workout.
- Inexplicable mental meltdown. Pretty sure exercise is meant to promote happiness, not lead to one bursting into tears ten minutes in for no known reason. (This came in the middle of a bad week, but why the meltdown when running instead of, i dunno, over breakfast, I do not know.)

On the bright side, the leg pain has ceased, my lung capacity/breathing stamina has notably improved, and I haven't fallen over anything or anyone for two whole weeks. Progress!

Comments

[liv]

Yay, go you completing a workout successfully, and improving your lung capacity, that's really good news. It is really hard to establish a habit, and I'm sorry to hear that one of the things that derailed you was meltdown. The headphones thing presumably won't happen again, but I definitely know from experience that it's nearly impossible to do half a workout, stop, and then make yourself complete the second half.

[highlyeccentric]

Meltdown was strange and unexpected! The other aggravating thing is that I seem to have only so much power to devote to enforcing routines - I was saying to Dr J this morning that I've not practiced meditation or yoga since I started running. In theory I should alternate, one day of each, but I just don't seem to have the capacity to focus on maintaining two separate habits. I'm already doing either of those at the expense of work, in the morning, because of apparent inability to enforce normal waking-up time *followed by* normal starting-to-function time.