couch to 5k

Well I talked to hubby about the couch to 5k thing. He didnt think it was a good idea. We had a bit of an argument on the street about it.

AS I was explaining it he kept interepting me saying… what about the babe, what are we going to do with her? How long will this be? How much time will it take up? I told him I wanted him there with me, but he didnt think he could carry ameena, and pushing her on the buggy was going to be too hard if he was running at the same time. He wanted to get a thingy to go on the back of the bike so he could put her in it, then I run while he rides the bike beside me. In fact lets just forget about running and we’ll get two bikes and we’ll bike around (when I suggested this a few months ago I was crazy, but now its his idea its the best in the world)

For every answer I gave him it just caused him to come up with 3 more questions.

I told him to STOP looking for the bad and TRY to be encouraging. I told him when we did PE that running was the ONE thing I COULDNT do. AND it would be the one thing that I would feel accomplished to do. I Always got too tired when we ran, I always was one of the last people, I always was huffing and puffing behind. He said he never had a trouble running and he always saw those people who came huffing and puffing WAY behind everyone else. I told him I was one of those people. So much so that our PE was seperated into sexes. The girls ran first and once they finished the boys would run. They always started the boys before I finished I was that slow. I couldnt run a mile with out stopping. And I’d really really like to be able to.

So he stopped arguing and actually talked it through. ERG I hate that habit of his, everytime we start a conversation he HAS to agrue it out. He HAD to say something contrary to what I say. When I get upset about it and angry and yell at him he stops it and actually starts to listen to me and THEN we can have a conversation about it. And it goes through this same process EVERY time about ANYTHING!!

I explained about the 8 week plan how the first week I jog for a minute and walk for a minute and a half for 20 minutes or so. I told him that for the first few weeks I KNEW I was going to be slow and I kind of figured that even while I was jog he could keep up with the buggy by walking fast. He said that yes he probablly could do that for the first few weeks. I said if after that the buggy gets too hard to push there are special buggys to get for running. I really HATE the buggy we have now anyways, so a new one might be VERY welcomed. We figured out that we’d run both days of the weekend and then one day during the week.

Well see how it goes. Tomorrow is the start of the weekend… so we’ll see if we actually get out and get it started.