I ain't no college kid anymore...

I just got back from doing my workout. It was brutal, but rewarding. The intervals for today were: 5 minute walking warm-up, 3 minutes of jogging, 1 1/2 minutes of walking, 5 minutes of jogging, 2 1/2 minutes of walking, 3 minutes of jogging, 1 1/2 minutes of walking and ending with a 5 minute jog. I decided to take a different route today. Unfortunately, just as I started my first 5 minutes of jogging, I was heading up a huge hill. Lovely... NOT! I started up the hill and made some progress, but my calves started feeling very sore and very tight. I didn't want to get an injury that would cause me to stop working out, so I decided to stop and stretch my calves. They felt a bit better after the stretches, but I walked up the rest of the hill to ease back into it. Once I got to the top of the hill, I was feeling good. I started jogging and decided that I would forget the workout plan and just jog until I couldn't jog any longer. At first, it was incredibly easy because... yes, you guessed it... I was jogging downhill! Piece o' cake!!! Once the path flattened out, I slowed my pace and discovered the problem. All these times, I have been jogging at a pace I jogged while in college. Hello!!! I ain't no college kid anymore!!! Slowing down my pace allowed me to steady my breathing and go the distance. I jogged for 13 straight minutes which for me is a small miracle since I haven't done much running since college. Yahoo!!! Mind you while I was out there, it was only 38 degrees (but felt like 32 degrees). YIKES!