It Worked!

Yesterday I posted that TODAY would be the day I went back to the gym and exercised again.  Well I kept my word and it worked!  I left work at 12 on the dot ready to go do Couch to 5K.  I changed before I left, jumped on the freeway and STOPPED.  Seriously?  Traffic at 12 in the afternoon?  Ridiculous.  I warned my boss that I might be late because I was experimenting if I had time to do this workout so I wasn't too worried but I was sad that this might be a ONE time thing.  If this was how the traffic was going to be then it wouldn't work.  I needed it to take no more than 15 minutes to get there and with that kind of traffic there was no way.

I slowly get one exit further and phew, it's just a stall, so I creep back to up to a speed that may have been slightly over the speed limit, for less than a MILE! Then... brakes again.  Geez, this really wasn't going my way.  The gym is only 5 exits away, it should be quick!  Well I found the next problem, street freeway sweepers.  Yes, apparently 12 noon is the perfect time to sweep the freeway!  I don't know if they do it every Thursday or not, but today they were.  (That's fine with me because normally Thursdays I work my lunch so I would not have normally been able to go today anyways.)

So once I got to the gym I jumped on a treadmill (which the gym was empty, so nice!) and started my workout right away.  I only did a 3 minute cool down instead of 5, but I made it back at 1:00 on the dot!  Of course I still had to change but that is not a big deal, I was back within the hour and providing there are less stalls and street freeway sweepers this could be something I do a couple of times a week!

Now I do have to admit one thing.  I had not done any of the Couch to 5k program in 9 days and the last day I did it outside becaue there were no treadmills at the gym so my sister and I didn't complete the whole thing.  With that I decided I better go back to week 1 and make sure I was good with that workout before pushing myself harder and not finishing.  I did great with the workout and although it's never a JOY for me, it was not bad at all.  I actually may even look forward to doing the next one!