Week 3, Already?

Today was Day one of week three.  It's a miserable day in North Carolina, temperature wise, and precipitation wise.  I decided after doing bus duty in the frigid temps that I was going to kick it old school, and spend some time with my ever so precious dreadmill... AKA treadmill.  I was really not sure about the whole change of scenery since I was already planning on altering my workout for the new week.  I wondered if the new environment would be too much, and perhaps push me over the edge?  Or worse yet, make me walk.  I've literally been thinking and worrying about this workout all day, Would I be able to handle it?  


Before the last bus came, I stepped into the office and had a small conversation with a high school junior (our school's receptionist's daughter) about my back hurting.  Since I've been run/walking, my lower back is achy.  She (a track runner) told me that it was probably just a strain.  Then I mentioned that today I had to go a whole three minutes running without stopping, and lets just say that I'm quite impressed with her ability to hold back her laughter.  She look at me as if I was some crazy old lady who is COMPLETELY out of shape, then she realized that I was serious and corrected her response.  I find this mildly comical and somewhat depressing at the same time.  I thought my exploration of becoming a runner was something I should be proud of, not something others would find ridiculous.  So, with my bruised ego, I made dinner when I got home, popped it into the oven and then went upstairs to change.  


Once on the treadmill and plugged into my most favorite tunes with Jon Hayden's copycat version of my couch to 5K podcast, I was ready to get going.  I did my five minute warm-up, on to my 90 second run, followed by a 90 second recovery, and then I was there.  Yep, there at the three minutes of running, running without stopping.  Luckily for me, my ability to focus really well on abstract objects (thank you lamaze training) and sweet tunes being pumped into my ears I was able to run the entire interval!  Three minutes of recovery, and then I was back to running.  And now that it's said and done, it really wasn't very challenging at all.  It actually felt like my workout was easier than normal.  I did an additional 90 second run before my 5 minute cool down, just because!  Crazy right?  So I think that the dreadmill, is not quite as dreadful as I thought.   But instead,  my neighborhood hills are the dreaded road blocks in my very near future.  Being a girl who grew up in southern Louisiana, I have a special loathing for hills.  Oh sure, they're gorgeous to look at, make for interesting scenery, but they suck when it comes to exercise(biking, walking, running).  

Can you guess what my new obsessive worry will be until Friday?  Yep, will I be able to do this outside on the hills? I'm hoping the weather turns around, and I can run outside Friday.  But secretly between us, if I have to do the inside easy workout again, that'll be OK.