Ilene, last year I never would have thought I'd be doing 22 mile bike rides. As it turns out it isn't that bad though. Almost no hills, for one, other than a doozy right at the end.

I just finished up my workout for the day. I did a strength workout with my trainer. He seemed especially fond of different variations on squats and lunges today, so my legs are tired. Then after I did 45 minute of cardio. Usually on Mondays I use the elliptical, but I've been getting bored of it lately. So instead I split my time between the stairmill and the rowing machine. The stairmill certainly isn't boring! Hard though. The rowing machine is fun but I'm not sure it got my heart rate up that much. Oh well. The stairmill took care of that.

Just back from a great chest workout...

YOU CAN DO IT! Dig deeper, push harder and you will make it.

Or just run for 10 minutes instead of the 16 and work yourself up, gear the workout to your needs...

50 min incline trainer - complete.

20 min of boxing and 50 min of weights to go!

This morning I went on an 11 mile bike ride, then sat around for about an hour in my sweaty bike clothes, and then ran/walked a 5K loop around my neighborhood. My legs were tired, so I did more walking than I wanted to. On the good side though, I ran the first mile in 10:40, which is my fastest mile ever. Usually I only run a 12 minute mile.

Trust me, I know how you feel! I can tell you though that I found W3D3 to be easier than W3D2, which was very hard, like you said.

I just got home a little while ago from running W4D1, so I can tell you how I did with that. It really isn't as bad as it sounds, even though it really does look like a huge leap from where W3 leaves you off. Just try not to give yourself a huge mental block about it - I figured out in W3 that having those mental blocks makes it SO much harder than it really is... So go in telling yourself you absolutely CAN do it, and chances are you'll surprise yourself and it really will work out. And don't forget - You can always slow your running pace! From time to time I find I have to if I'm going to keep going for an entire interval! I don't really *run* to begin with, I jog... And sometimes I slow my pace to something that feels to me like slightly exaggerated walking, although I'm probably moving a little faster than that!

The point is, you CAN do this. I believe in you.


Another quick note about my run, was that I managed to break the 2 mile mark for the first time since I started C25K today! I feel AWESOME!

I saw this thread and couldn't help but post. I've been waking up at 5am everyday this week and hitting the gym with the roommate for 25 mins. Yesterday I crashed hard at 10am when I got to work. Today I seem to have somewhat more energy.

The next two days are going to be a struggle for me big time. I have to work at my part time job tonight and tomorrow night, so getting home and in bed at 11pm, then back up at 5a is going to be tough. But I'm gonna push through it and see what happens. Wish me luck to get in 5 days of workout activity!

Ran for 35 minutes today with a distance of 3.7 miles. I haven't run in a week and it felt good getting back to it. Wonder if I'll be sore tomorrow?

Today is one of my work-from-home days & I was up fairly early, so I tried something different. I went to the gym twice, once in the morning, at 7 AM, to lift dumbbells, and then again in the evening, for my 7:30 PM spin class, for which I'd reserved a bike ahead of time. These workouts were nice bookends for my working day, helping to wake me up in the morning and then to work off tension at the end of the day. Usually I think it's more efficient for me to spend two hours consecutively at the gym, but I thought I'd play around, just to see if there was a difference. I can get so rigid about my schedule that I have to do something like this now & then, just to retain some kind of mental flexibility, which I think is important for someone with my history & my love of structure, order & sameness.

Just back from a strength workout with my trainer. It was a little harder than usual, and my arms in particular are feeling kind of shaky and weak. At one point he had me doing step-ups with a twenty pound jug of water in each hand. I was huffing and puffing from doing them with that extra weight. Then it occurred to me that when I first started working out with him I was carrying twice that amount of weight on my body. No wonder I used to dread step ups!

So this was my first day in the gym and let me say it was a big fat fail!

I joined the Triple Fat Burner class at my gym and I lasted all of 20 minutes I'm so disappointed in myself! I then proceeded to get on the elliptical for 3 minutes!! I just got so flustered I could not think straight.

My boyfriend hyped me up to go tomorrow (he goes to the gym up the block from mine) though so I'm not off the horse. I have learned the error of my ways, well some of them at least. Here's what I will do different.

-When the class begins to get too hard take a 60 second break instead of trying to keep up with everyone else.
-When I hit the plateau where I really just want to drop I will leave the class and take 5 minutes to compose myself then instead of doing MORE cardio do a little training which is much easier for me for some reason.
-My goal tomorrow is to make 30 minutes in the class.

With me luck ladies !! -fingers & toes crossed-

Bella, don't be so hard on yourself, we all start somewhere just keep at it and eventually you'll bet better and fitter...

Today I walked with my client, she hurt her ankle on Mother's day and hasn't run since so we started this week with walking, she did very well... so we walked fast for 50 mins. ... Tonight I went to the gym and did a whole body workout for 30 mins, it wasn't long but it was intense...