of course it did

Do you ever have one of those days when things just don't go as planned? I sure do. More often than I think I should. Like yesterday.

It all started out fine. I went to work as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. But somehow, once it hit 5:00 pm it was all downhill from there.

So I'm moving into a new apartment this week, and yesterday I needed to stop by the leasing office to take care of some paper work.  I also wanted to drop some stuff off at the new place. Totally normal plans. Until I got stopped in traffic for an hour, literally a few feet away from my destination. There was some sort of power outage throughout the blocks in which the apartments are situated. All of the cars were being rerouted by a police officer.

Well, I eventually make it (though the leasing office was closed by this point). My new roommate could at least let me in to drop off my stuff. So, ok, crisis averted.

Next on my list was to get home with enough time to eat dinner and clean up a little before my home teachers came over. So I'm driving on the freeway (all of this so far has happened in the rain, by the way) and screetch! my windshield wipers decide this would be the best time to stop working. Like, completely stop working. No movement, at all. I had to stop somewhere to move them down so they wouldn't be just sitting mid-wipe on my windshield.

Luckily I was almost home, and got there safely. That had to be the end, right? Oh no.

I had to deal with the killing of a rather large cockroach in my apartment minutes after I got home. It didn't seem alarmed at all as I approched it with my can of bug spray. It kind of acted like it was not a big deal that it was there.

Of course it did.

hit the ground running

Today was Day 1 in my walk/jog interval training.  How did I feel when I was done? a little bit like I wanted to puke. But that's pretty standard for me after I jog. You see, I have the worst endurance for running. But I wish I was good at it. However, in order to get good at it you have to do it regularly. It's lose lose. 

So a few weeks ago I stumbled upon an article about a 10 week program you can do to build up your running endurance. Every day you do 30 minutes of alternating walking/jogging. Every week you increase the amount of minutes you spend jogging. By the end of the ten weeks you should be able to jog (at a good pace) for 30 minutes without stopping.

Now, for those of you who are mocking at the simplicity of this task, you can just go read someone else's blog. For me being able to jog for 30 minutes without stopping is close to a miracle. In my younger years when I was in better shape I could come close to it. But I always had to take breaks to walk. Even in my best shape I've not been able to do it. I think it's psychological, actually. I can exercise for 30 minutes, even longer than that. But I can't do it just straight running.  

So we'll see how this goes. 

Wish me luck.

I need it.