Week 6 - We're Still At It

For those of you who aren't familiar with our training schedule, usually Jill and I run together every Wednesday because I have the morning off. Two other days of the week, we run separately since we have different schedules.

This particular Wednesday started with me getting the following text message at 8:37 a.m.:

Jill: Can I come now? Let's lay in bed for a little bit. I'm tired.

So when she arrived, we went upstairs and got under the covers. What you don't understand about Jill and me is that we come from a long line of Studdard women. Women with this family name have "lay-in-bed-under-the-covers-for-long-periods-of-time" firmly encrypted into their genetic code. We just can't get away from it. So this is what the first portion of our training day looked like:


Untitled from Cassie Hendon on Vimeo.

At 10:00 exactly, we got up from bed, and proceeded with our training.  We did our 5 minute warm-up, an 5 minute run, a 3 minute walk, an 8 minute run, another 3 minute walk, and a final 5 minute run, with a 5 minute cool down.  We were on a roll once we started running, and actually ran further than we ever have!  Unfortunately, this was due to us NOT hearing the voice of The Potato Masher (the endearing term we use for the voice on our Couch-to-5K training application that tells us when to walk and run), telling us that we'd reached the halfway point.  We actually ended up going the full distance of the 5K, and in under 45 minutes.  That was really encouraging since we're only on week 6, and we know our endurance and speed will increase as we continue training through week 9 in prep for our 5K on March 6.  


After such a great accomplishment, what did we do?  Well, check it out for yourself:

 
Untitled from Cassie Hendon on Vimeo.

P.S. For those of you who doubt that we ever left the bed and went on our run, please note that my clothes are different and my hair is pulled back in video 2!