Yummm…Protein (or how I ate a bug tonight)

Okay, so I’m on to week 2 of the running program here. Sorry I neglected you on all on the weekend – luckily I didn’t also neglect my run, much as I would have loved to. You see, my left bum cheek was so sore from my first days on the program that I thought I might not ever be able to walk again.

At one point, my youngest wanted my attention and I was somewhat ignoring her, so she punched me in the behind…it felt so good I asked her to do it again and got her big sister (stronger=better) in on the action. They had such a hoot punching Mommy in the bum, and I got a (sorta) massage. Hee hee.

Anyway, the weekend run was uneventful, and today it was time to take it up a notch and change the intervals from 4.5 mins walking & 30 seconds running to a whole … get ready for it … ONE MINUTE of running at a time! Woo! Now, did I say in my last post that running for 30 seconds sucked because you only got the worst part of the run and none of the good stuff? Well, that all goes double for only running one minute at a time. I guess it does really take a few minutes to hit that stage where your body is running but your mind is flying free. (or is that just me?) Anyway, one minute was also not the best, especially uphill and into the wind. blah.

But how, you ask, is all this related to my winged, six-legged dinner? It’s not. Not really. At least no further than the fact that the bug-eating happened during my run, and the above is about running. (But you know me and my tangents…right?) Okay, so let’s get to it then. I’m about halfway into the outing (keep in mind that the walking part of the run is done at a speed just slightly lower than actually running – it’s basically as fast as you can go while still having one foot on the ground at all times) and doing fine. My watch beeps so I know the 4 minute walk is up and it’s time to take it up to trot speed. Done. Looking over my right shoulder at the neighbourhood soccer pitch (where I had just been cheering my 3-year old’s team not 30 minutes before) I ran right straight into a swarm (a thick swarm) of …gnats? no-see-ums? teeny tiny black swarming hovering flies? Whatever you want to call them, I was on one of my actual running stints, so therefore mouth-open and breathing deeply, and hit – perfectly timed on a large inhale – the cloud of flying insects head-on.

Blech.

I thought I spat most of them out, but discovered a couple of black crusties stuck in my teeth when brushing before bed (yes, I am posting this in bed…have I mentioned how much I love my laptop? My husband is jealous because he says I take it to bed more than I take him to bed!).

So, how gross is swallowing a bunch of bugs? Par for the course, I guess. It is, after all, spring, so I have a feeling a few more bug buffets might be in my future before the whole 10K training stint is over.

So the only question I have now, is: how many points are flies worth on Weight Watchers?

And, for LoriD and anyone else playing along at home, here is the training schedule for last week, this week and next week.

Week One – 3 times/week
warmup/cooldown: 15 min walking
walk: 4.5 min
run: 0.5 min
repeat: 6X
total running time: 3 min

Week Two – 3 times/week
warmup/cooldown: 15 min walking
walk: 4 min
run: 1 min
repeat: 6X
total running time: 6 min

Week Three – 3 times/week
warmup/cooldown: 15 min walking
walk: 3.5 min
run: 1.5 min
repeat: 6X
total running time: 9 min