Couch to 5k Week 1, Session 2 - Someone call an ambulance!

Just finished session 2.  Now that it's done I can say I don't feel nearly as hot as I did Tuesday night but I think that's because a cold front came through and it feels like winter time again outside. That made it really hard this time it seemed. I couldn't breathe from my nose so I found myself gasping for air through my mouth instead of breathe in through nose, out through mouth.  (I use my nose to slow my breathing so I don't hyperventilate.)  My upper chest also hurts like I have a cold or coughor something. I guess that's from breathing so fast and being out of breaht. Why does it do that? My muscles burned this time instead of feeling numb and I seemed to be in much more pain. All in all, this session did not go as well as I planned.  I had to stretch out the 20 minutes again because of breathing problems.  This time my side also started hurting.  I sure hope this gets easier because this is about the worst pain I've ever been in and I'm doing it to myself! Some thoughts I remembered from the seesion:  - OMG it hurts!  - I'm gonna die!  - I should just quit, this is too much work.  - OMG 10 seconds is like an eternity.  - Am I really cut out to be a runner?  - People actually like doing this? I wanted to do this?  - I can't do it. I gotta slow down... Walk longer to recatch my breath.  - When I walk longer it seems to get harder.  - Is it okay to walk longer in between jogs? What if it hinders my progress?  - Pick up the pace fat ass! You're barely moving faster than a walk!  - Oo, this burns, maybe my legs will be like He-Man's when I get done.  - Gee, it seems to be getting easier..oh crap, there goes my side again.  - THANK GOD ITS OVER! Despite all the negative thoughts I finished it all.  I still plan on continuing. I've got to at least try. I wonder if it's easier when you're smaller? Perhaps all this weight makes it harder. I kinda hope it does that way I can say to all the skinny people that I'm working harder than them! My nephew ran circles around me again.... The dog pooped in the grass near my path, had to smell that every time I ran by it, didn't help the breathing! lol

Rolling on the mother#$%^ing floor dying laughing.  Cold weather exercise can suck bad. I wonder if you are not getting a cold, but maybe I don't get how cold it is out there.  Ummmm i didn't want to tell you til now, but i hope it is not exercise induced asthma.  i developed it after years of running in the early morning. It still happens, but in my case, i don't wheeze exactly, more like a big frog in my throat so I sound like a coal miner.  Hang in there, He-Guy!!!!

You're a riot.  Reading your post made me laugh and I'm in a funk.  You have a great sense of humor and that is so cool.  It will probably get even harder before it starts to get easier.  One day you will look back and say I can't believe I thought this was hard.  Congrats on doing this.  You are an inspiration to all of us.  Losing weight is hard, ugly, scary, painful and downright a pain in the ass and side.  It is worth it.  You are getting healthy.  Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing this.  You are a funny dude. 

I sure hope I don't have asthma!  I'm trying to think back to when I was younger and more healthy. It seems like I always had a problem breathing while running and doing exercise. Seems like it got a little easier as I got more fit though. Perhaps it's just an out of shape thing.  Next time I go to the doctor I'll ask him about it. (Hah i just typed "abou tits", isn't that hilarious!? Speaking of that, maybe he can tell me if my man tits will ever go away! hahah)  I find myself start to wheezing when I get winded and eventually it does sound like a frog or kinda hoarse. I can make that hoarse, froggy, barking cold/cough throat sound too. Maybe I do have a problem, who knows. It's so hard to explain where the pain is but even after I'm done the pain continues and when I take a deep breath in it feels like my lungs can't handle the inflation, I feel tingly pain in the back of my throat. In fact, I feel it now too.  Weird. God I wish I would've been a doctor so I'd know what my body is doing.  Maybe it wants a twinkie? Too bad, not gonna get it! Maybe just one, one won't hurt. NO damnit, no! Heheh!  Thanks ya!  I've always been the type to try and lighten the mood.  People take life so seriously sometime. Just sit back and look at life. It's friggin hilarious, why do we dwell and fret over such stupid things!!?  That's odd though, I thought you were the inspiration?  Heck, I've only just begun my journey, again. I hope I can stick with it like you have! 

One OTC thing i use for my froggy thing is guafnasin (sic) not with decongestant - mucinex, usually.  I have to take 600 mg.  We can get a generic brand at Costco - or Sams club. It makes mucus run more thin.  It helps me. My doc gave me an inhaler - severent - that didn't do **** for it. As I say, mine does not always show up. I percieve that it started cuz of cold air, but truth is, even on hot days, once in a while, it will start up.   DON'T give up, if anything, scale back a hair - don't work so hard, but keep showing up.  I really think lots of people try to go way too fast when working on running. I had to close out *other people* and just do my own thing. Yes, i looked friggin pathetic out there.  I got cat-called a bunch (teenage boys were the worst). Thank God most of the time I was in the dark before most people were up even. Work on being consistent more than anything - even a couple times a week will help you build a base.

I can't take anything too seriously either. Sh*t is funny, all of it.

I can't believe that you are jogging already.  Heck, I've just built up my endurance to walk a mile.  I made the first mile last Sunday night, then Monday I spent about 3 hours at the funeral home, standing around...no walking that day; got up Tuesday morning and my back had went out.  Still not sure if it was missing a day of exercising or just the stress of standing around all evening.  To make a long story short, I wasn't able to walk again Tuesday after the funeral.  Wednesday night 1/2 mile of brisk walking and 1/4 mile of slow cooling off walking was as much as I could stand on that back pain.  Last night I made it the mile again, and rode a stationery bike for 10 minutes while Grey's anatomy was on.  I'm trying to be consistent with my walking and hope to work up to 2 miles soon.  BTW my 15 y/o daughter was jogging right past me the whole time I was walking.  Geez I miss my youth.

Hmm, you know now that I think of it I was having to spit a lot. Found myself trying to hock up a loogie that just wouldn't come out. Perhaps I do have mucous on my chest. Today I kinda feel like I am developing some type of upper respiratory infection. God forbid!  I did have some slight breathing issues on tuesday night but they were much worse thursday night so I imagine the cold weather did have something to do with it. I can't believe I'm jogging either!  I hurts like hell!  I just feel like walking isn't enough. I've always felt that way. I actually do a lot of walking every day and always have. Not the 10,000 steps but at least 5,000 everyday and that shoudl count for something but seemingly it doesn't.  So therefore instead of spending all my time walking I jog. Before I started jogging I could walk a mile no problem. I could have probably walked 5 miles with good shoes. I've never really had a problem with endurance in that area.  Then again, I am only 27 and have never had any health problems except hypertension which only recently came about after I started taking phentermine. (Which I quit directly after.)  I'd almost give up my youth to be skinny. Then again, this battle will take years so it's like I am giving up part of my life to  be skinny. Kinda ironic isn't it.