As predicted, my legs were aching on Thursday, and even worse yesterday. It’s not just my quads that feel it, but the muscles in the front of my thighs (that would be the rectus femoris, and yes, I did just look that up), maybe because they take the weight that my quads can’t support. (Although thinking about it, I’m not sure that makes any sense in anatomical terms.) So I deviated from my every-other-day habit for the first time, but I’m glad I did, since a) my legs feel better today—still a little sore, but almost back to normal—and b) this makes two Saturdays in a row that I’ve avoided completely giving in to my usual Saturday inertia, so maybe I can finally break that habit.
I didn’t really have the music in me today.* I was a little shaky from too much caffeine, and though I started out doing the jogging intervals at a slightly faster speed than I’ve done before, I found that I couldn’t keep that up. During the second-to-last jog, I even thought about skipping the final one, because I was flagging. But I didn’t skip it; I got the full workout done, and I think I’m ready for week 3. I’m contemplating doing an extra day of week 2, but I think that’s just me being fearful, so I’ll probably plow ahead to week 3 on Monday. Week 3 looks challenging but doable; week 4 looks like it’s exponentially harder, and I suspect I’ll be repeating week 3 at least once. But then again, I thought that about weeks 1 and 2, so I should probably just remind myself that cliche or not, I really do need to take this one workout at a time.
*This line, which I’ve used for years to describe anything that I did without really having my heart in it, is only indirectly a reference to the cheesy old Kiki Dee song. It’s more a reference to a strip from Eyebeam, one of my favorite comics of all time. I was going to try to explain the strip, but to find it funny, you really have to know the characters, and besides, I’ve just discovered that after years of my hoping this would happen, the cartoonist, Sam Hurt, has finally put all the strips online, so you can just read it yourself. And I’m so happy to have made this discovery that I’m going to do a whole separate post about it.