Glutton for punishment or dedicated runner - You tell me LOL

Okay, these are things I know -

I know the forecast today is for rain and it has already been raining so if I run outside, I'm likely to get caught in the rain....

BUT

My sport watch is waterproof and rain is better than blazing heat isn't it.

If I want to avoid the rain, I can run inside on the treadmill...

BUT

To run on the road outside is MUCH more of a workout than a session on the treadmill.

I know that the reverse of my route has much more uphill on it....

BUT

I know that the uphill will give me more of a workout and therefore up the ante on my training.

Knowing all of this, guess what I did......

I RAN OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN ON THE REVERSE OF MY ROUTE. :-)

LOL I can almost see my friend Sandy shaking her head and saying "Crazy chick" hehehehe

The cherry on top - on my last stretch I ran past a random guy who said "Mooi maam, hou did so" *HUGE GRIN*

Ain't running just GRAND!!!!!!

Week 4 completed

Wow, the wind is howling today and I knew as soon as I woke up this morning that running outside wouldn't be an option *SIGH*. So it was me and my trusty treadmill for my day 3 of week 4.

In my opinion, there are pro's and con's in connection with the treadmill. On the plus side, I like the idea that I can 'see' the speed and distance that I do but on the negative side, I don't like the 'sealegs' feeling I get when I step off the treadmill after working on it. Also, working on the treadmill is really hot work, whereas outside you sometimes get a bit of a breeze to cool you down.

The funny thing about my treadmill is, that I actually bought it years ago with the intention of using it to get fit, but I never did, it just sat around gathering dust (as I'm sure a lot of exercise equiment does in a lot of other houses). Eventually I tried selling it and I'm now really glad that it didn't get sold.

BUT, I did do my final day of week 4 and it went off really well. In fact on each of the 'legs' of this session, I actually upped the speed, so my last stretch was done at a faster speed than the first stretch.

I'm thrilled with the progress that I'm making and to think that when I first started, I could barely run at all LOL Whats also great is that even though the sessions are getting more strenuous, I'm dealing with them easier. When I started off with this exercise junket in Jan, I was walking around the block - about 12 minutes exercise, now I can easily work for 40minutes. At this point, I could probably do more, but would rather stick to the schedule than risk getting injured and have to put everything on hold.

So 4 weeks down, 8 weeks to go :-)