Week 3, Day 6

Today I'm a little bummed. You see, last week my wife said that jogging was different than running. To which I rebutted that I am supposed to start slow and speed will come, and that I wasn't going to listen to anything negative that she or her mother, who was also in the car, had to say. I felt like saying, "at least I'm not sitting on the 'couch of doom' all the time. Then yesterday my mother-in-law said, "I saw you out running this morning." She then turned to my wife and said, "He's not running, he's jogging." To her credit, my wife came to my defense and said that I'm supposed to be starting slow. I felt like saying, "At least I'm not buying a dozen doughnuts every other day." What depressing negativity. How is one supposed to work through that? I dunno. Dave Ramsey says, "If your broke friends are making fun of you, you're doing something right." The same can probably be translated into exercise. I'm glad tomorrow is a rest day.

Today I tried to mix things up to push myself forward because two weeks at 2 & 2 is enough right? I first walked 2 minutes then ran for two. Then I tried walking 1 running for 2; I don't know why it is so hard. Maybe it's because I don't having running shoes, maybe there are too many hills in my neighborhood. I'm now going up the long, low incline and down the steep hill. I changed it up so that I would walk 1 minute when going down the big incline and walk 2 when going up the long incline, and I still don't feel like I could do it and ended up walking 3 and then 4 minutes up hill. Maybe I'll chalk it up to making slower-than-wanting progress and change my route to a more flat one.