Day 7 - Feel the Burn!!

Today is the beginning of week 3 training. And the training kicks it up a notch. A big notch! Even though the last 2 weeks I haven't been consistent with the training, I decided to go ahead and move on to week 3 training. Today I woke up at 4am to go to the gym. I am determined to get into the habit of going in the morning to 1. Beat the evening crowds and 2. Get it out of the way. Before walking out the door, I look at my training sheet and gasp. It says: "Walk 3 minutes, run 4 minutes. Try repeating this 4 times. Whaaaat! What happened to walking 4 minutes and running 3 minutes? They totally skipped over that! Okay, I can do this I tell myself as I'm walking out the door.

I hop on the treadmill and decide to skip the warm (bad idea) and walk for 3 minutes. I then crank up the treadmill to 4.5 and get my jogging on. So far, so good. I look at the timer and 2 minutes have passed. I'm thinking, this is easy. What was I worried about? Then I hit the 3 minute mark. And the burn set in. My calves were on fire! But I tough it out and after 4 minutes, I slowed the treadmill down and went back to walking. The burn continues and it doesn't seem like it's going to subside. So I pause the treadmill and stretch out my calf muscles. I resume walking and after another 3 minutes, I start jogging again. This time it's not easy and I'm grimacing the entire time. After 2 minutes, I slow it down and walk. After another couple of minutes, I get off the treadmill.

I don't know what was going on today but I could not muster through. The burn was too much for me to bear. Maybe I need to do calf exercises to build them up. I decide to weight train afterwards and I made sure to include calf raises.

I'm going to head back to the gym tonight and give it the old college try. Let's hope I'm successful.