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PROGRESS and, uh, Onions. Actually.
May. 4th, 2011 07:49 pmI have started the Couch 2 5K program. Honestly, it feels like such a huge deal to me that I hardly know what to say about it other than that. Monday was my first day of Week One (*wheezeGASPwheeze*) and it was... erm. Pitiful, actually. Today was day two (the program is three days a week with rest days in between) and it was, much to my surprise, actually a smidge easier. Granted, there was still plenty of gasping, just less wheezing. A smidge easier for me means that I actually managed to do the 60 seconds of running alternated with 90 seconds of walking for the whole 20 minutes, whereas on Monday, there were some extra minutes of walking in the middle there and I felt a lot worse afterward. So I'm cautiously optimistic. I've joined ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
couch_2_5k, which has a slow but steady influx of posts, and it's been great to read about other people in different weeks of the program going "oh, wow, it got easier!" That's pretty much what I need to hear right now. :P
(There's a great set of links compiled at the c25k.com website.)
In other WTF?! news, I have onions growing in the garden. The sopping wet, un-tilled garden. They aren't wild onions and the ones from last year didn't go to seed - these are the wee little grass-like onion seedlings that I planted last spring at the same time as the leeks. I thought they died off, but they apparently just went dormant? I don't know. I do know there was no sign above soil level that anything was still there, but they did get the chance to lay undisturbed through a very hot summer and a very cold winter. Then, during the wettest April on record, they apparently decided they'd give this growing thing a go after all. The only reason I found the silly things is because I was looking at the mint growing nearby, noticed a weed and thought "oh that's pretty", and right next to it was... an onion plant. Then I noticed there were a whole row of onion plants. Well, better than half a dozen of them, anyway.
Plants are weird.
couch_2_5k, which has a slow but steady influx of posts, and it's been great to read about other people in different weeks of the program going "oh, wow, it got easier!" That's pretty much what I need to hear right now. :P(There's a great set of links compiled at the c25k.com website.)
In other WTF?! news, I have onions growing in the garden. The sopping wet, un-tilled garden. They aren't wild onions and the ones from last year didn't go to seed - these are the wee little grass-like onion seedlings that I planted last spring at the same time as the leeks. I thought they died off, but they apparently just went dormant? I don't know. I do know there was no sign above soil level that anything was still there, but they did get the chance to lay undisturbed through a very hot summer and a very cold winter. Then, during the wettest April on record, they apparently decided they'd give this growing thing a go after all. The only reason I found the silly things is because I was looking at the mint growing nearby, noticed a weed and thought "oh that's pretty", and right next to it was... an onion plant. Then I noticed there were a whole row of onion plants. Well, better than half a dozen of them, anyway.
Plants are weird.
