Ok, so here I am, sitting in front of the computer with a preschooler running hyperactively around me in circles waiting for the Michael Buble CD to rip onto the computer so it'll play (she IS her Mama's daughter after all) and I'm trying to remember the highlights of the last 5 runs to bring you up to speed to where I am now on this little journey. I've been kindly reminded that I began this blog and then didn't update it with any actual run info, oops!

Week one of C25K was an eye opening experience if I'm honest. It wasn't pretty, at all, but there has never been anyone so proud as me when I finished the last run of the first week! In retrospect, I think I might have made it a touch harder on myself because I ran on the streets around my house - which is in an area known, and named, for it's hills... I'm clever like that. So I returned home that first night, face bright red, and it was suggested that perhaps an ambulance, rather than a shower, might be the first port of call. Family, gotta love em huh. But I survived those 3 runs, I live to tell the tale.

For Week 2, I decided to try out a track around a local park that we usually do PT at. It's soooo much flatter than the hellish hill my parents decided to move into a house on top of and so although this week it amped up to 90 seconds of running from 60 seconds, I found that my lungs actually weren't about to give out on me and I finally had hope for the majority of my run that there was a chance I might NOT spontaneously combust. Refreshing :)

Unfortunately, this week saw a niggle in my shins develop whilst running on Day 1, which fortunately disappeared into the oblivion it belongs in when I finished the run that night. Day 2 saw the niggle return enough to no longer be referred to as a niggle but as a pain that lasted throughout the next day and right into a physio appointment I booked to sort it out on Friday. I was lucky enough to get the biggest douchebag extraordinaire physiotherapist in the Sydney region who really did nothing but put some heat on, electrocute the area and tape up one shin alone with some sports tape to see if it made a difference. So there I was, $30 down (thank god for private health insurance), a shinful of sports tape up and missing an hour of my life I can never get back. The one thing he did say that was worth anything more than the Mintie I took from his receptionist's desk was that perhaps I should see a podiatrist in case it's my feet that are causing the problem. Well thank Einstein, it's good to know you were listening to me when I mentioned that I used to roll in, felt I still was and thought it might be a factor in the shin pain. Good to know that 4 year degree didn't go to waste. Thankfully I had already booked a podiatrist appointment thanks to the wisdom of a lovely friend, which is in a couple weeks time.

So today is Day 3 of Week 2 of the C25K. I'm running with 2 girlfriends for the first time, which I'm a bit concerned about as it'll truly prove exactly how slow I run (which in the runner's world, is a speed somewhat akin to a slow power walk) and how unfit I am. I normally do personal training with them on a Tuesday night, but seeing as they are on this C25K road as well, and I am meant to have started Week 3 already, we've decided to do it tonight together and make up the rest of the hour with PT kind of stuff. I'm hoping the shins hold out for a couple more weeks till I can get them sorted, so wish me luck on that front!

Happy running people!