This will get easier

Just finished day four of the intermediate training guide for the 5/3 Riverbank Run 25k - found here.  It was just a two mile run, but I think it speaks greatly for how much I have let myself get out of running shape the last month.  October and November are usually great maintenance run months, and help with transitioning your lungs from warmer air to colder air.

About .75 miles into the run, I was breathing heavy, with a slight wheeze on the exhale, and my lungs were burning.  It's about 36 degrees F out right now, so definitely cold air.  I ended up running two miles at a 10:09 pace.  Since I've finished, I'm still having a hard time returning to a normal breathing pattern and I coughed hard enough to bring out a lung about 10 times.  I know this will get easier (I've done it before), but, wow, it's enough to just make you want to stay out of shape.

I don't look too bad, but my lungs feel like hell broke loose in there.  I think it will be satisfying to look back at these post (and pictures) in a month, two months, 6 months, and see the progress.  No Speedo pictures yet for the ladies - maybe in June!  Ha ha ha...