My first run since Athens

My time is Athens was so spectacularly sucky that I arrived back in Canada feeling particularly down. I felt like I had failed and it didn't help when dozens of people wanted to know how it went. Each time I told the story it got shorter and shorter. Now that I've written it down on my blogs, I can just say "It sucked - read the blog." My treadmill has sat annoyingly in my living room as a constant reminder. Mostly it has collected dust, clothes, and other exercise equipment.

Today I gathered the courage to actually turn on the treadmill. I went in with low expectations. It's been three months since I went for a run. I know I've been doing P90x but running is a whole different thing. I felt like for a 5km run I was at about 70% of where I left off. With that said I don't mean that I could run a half-marathon tomorrow. But I wasn't as winded as I had expected. Each time that I stop running and go back to it it's like starting at day one when I can't run more than 5 minutes at a time. Surprisingly I hit 10 minutes at 5 mph right off the bat. I really felt it towards the end though.

Conclusion: running is way better than Yoga X

Cheers,