That's what I'm talking about !

I DID IT ! Yes !

I woke up this morning at 7 am and was out by 7:10. I started stretching, and I took my time to do it because I had a goal this morning : my first 30 minutes run since the NYC marathon last november. I was near 25 minutes the last time I went and I was angry for not running yesterday so mentally I was ready.

I started running at 7:15 sharp. And aouch, instant pain in both my legs, but well, I thought 'let's keep it up and we'll see'. And it slowly (SLOWLY) fade away. I decided to take a longer route to go to the usual Queen's Club Gardens, where I do laps. And even though I took a definitely longer route to get to the Queen's Club Gardens, I was there in 6 minutes, instead of the usual 8 minutes it takes me... Hmmm... I am definitely running faster then...

Anyhow, I am starting my first lap of the Queen's Club Garden. And usually this is when I need a couple of minutes because I'm struggling with my breathing. But today I did not, so I kept on running. First lap : good. Second lap : good. I am not even looking at my watch. Then I do and I realise that I am running a lap in 6 minutes ! I will have to do a lot of laps to get to the 1h30 in the future... But hey that's a good thing right ? Right... (I am a control freak, so I am already obsessing about where I will run when I will run longer, cause let's face it, I'm not gonna do 25 laps, people will start thinking I'm some kind of dumb freak)

I kept on running and running. I was now running for 20 minutes, good ! Time to get back home, knowing that after a 20 minutes run I probably ran slower. I decided to take the longer route anyway and well... It was too short, I still had 5 minutes left to get to 30. So I passed in front of my apartment and continued. THAT is hard ! And I had to do that THREE TIMES !

But finally I reached my 30 minutes goal, YEY :D ! First goal reached in 7 days, with two days off. YES again.

Now the slightly harder part begins, cause on Thursday I will have to run for 30 minutes again, and again, and again and then I will have to increase this time. Arrf. Already feeling exhausted.

I have to admit though that while running this morning I thought about the marathon and... As always, first thought : oh my god why did I decide to do that again ?! ; second thought : Oh yeah I'm doing it, it's gonna be sooo exciting :).

On a side note : I learned something yesterday while coming home from work. Apparently some people can ACTUALLY sleep on a motorcycle...