ten minutes

i've been rather tired these few past days. not sure why, i'm doing exactly the same things as before, i've not changed anything. perhaps it's because i went to bed at half one on friday night and i'm still catching up on that? the result is, i sleep a lot more and i'm much more lazy. i have to talk myself into going to the gym and i put it off for as long as i can. i don't like this very much but i guess the important thing is that i'm still going.

today, i planned to go to the gym at half one, i went at half four instead. i didn't have much food in me because we decided to make veggie chilli con carne for lunch (a rather late lunch) as i've never had it before and i didn't like it at all. the spices in it just didn't sit well with me. so i only ate a forkful and went to the gym on an empty stomach.
i wanted to do 30 minutes on the treadmill doing 2.5 min walk/2.5 min run. i started running after 2.5 min and was gasping for air after thirty seconds. it just wasn't happening. so i decided to walk for half an hour instead. it was so boring! i considered ringing mark and asking him to pick me up. after twenty minutes of walking i decided to run again and kept running and running and running. i ran for 10 minutes solid! ten minutes! i know that when i did 3 min walk/2 min run for half an hour i actually ran for 12 minutes but it didn't really require the same effort. soooo, i can tick off two goals from the 'other' list - jog for 5 minutes and jog for 10 minutes. so exciting!
afterwards, i did 15 mins on crosstrainer and 15 mins on recumbent bike. i started doing sit ups but remembered i have toning class tomorrow and we're likely to do loads of sit ups then.

i'm glad that what looked like a shitty workout turned out to be a really good one.