Day 3

Well after Wednesday's fun I was pretty achey, nothing really huge but my lower back arms and thighs were a bit sore and tight and my right calf was worse. It wasn't so bad yesterday (Thursday) but it was worse today.

I had planned to do another run today but I don't want to push it and do myself some injury that will leave me unable to exercise for a few days. So I decided to go for a walk instead of a run. I'm not really happy to be breaking my exercise plan on my second session, but I think that I am better off deciding that if I can't do the exercise I planned I will do some other exercise, even if it is a bit easier, than just staying at home on my arse. Hopefully it will have subsided enough by tomorrow that I will be comfortable having another go at running.

My running app doesn't seem to do "free runs" where I can just make it start recording and tell it when to stop, which is annoying, but mapping it out on Google afterwards it was about 3 miles.  Interesting really as that is pretty much my target for running. It seems like a long way but a not totally unachievable target.

On the upside I got weighed this morning to find I'd lost 3 pounds. I don't really believe it; I'm sure a fair amount of that is water loss thanks to diet changes, exercise and not drinking alcohol for a couple of days (yeah, I know nothing like going nuts with it right? ) but I can't say it isn't encouraging! Looking forward to having a weigh-in and measure at the end of the week now.

I've just had a bit of a Google around about whether you are supposed to exercise with sore muscles or not. Apparently the sore/achey/stiffness you get 24-48 hours after starting new exercise (or different exercise, or adding extra weights etc.) is called "Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness" or DOMS, and is perfectly normal. I already knew that, well I knew that it was normal, although I had no idea what it was called.
My word is there a lot of contradictory crap information out there over whether you are supposed to exercise when you have it or not.
I will do some more research and see what I can figure out. I think that sort of thing is really important to know as someone who is starting a new exercise regime. Do I put up with the pain and press on or rest up until it is completely gone or what? That will make a massive difference.