10 in 13: Hurtling over hurdles

Week 2 of Couch to 10k has been ridiculously rough for me. Despite giving it a try every day this week, I haven’t been able to make it past 20-ish minutes. I’m not sure what it is about the leap from running 30-second intervals to running 1 minute at a time, but it’s kicking my butt. I warm up okay, and somehow manage to make it through 3 intervals of run 1 minute, walk 4 minutes — and then I get woozy and start feeling really dizzy.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never really run before? I’m fearing I might have to go back and repeat the run 30 seconds, walk 4.5 minutes routine of the first week and then give Week 2 a try next week.

Any tips from people that do a lot of running?

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Tiarra Wantz is a comic book and sci-fi geek girl who enjoys reading, playing video games, creating typography art, and comparing everything to “that one episode of TNG where…” Tiarra lives in Las Vegas with the love of her life, Dan, where they live together with two cuddly kittens named Panda Face and Ser Pounce-a-lot and a precocious pup named Pippin.

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