Training 7 - yoga day

Yesterday ended with a lot of pain in both my knees as well as a painful headache, and the vow to be gentle with myself today. The last week has involved a lot of walking all around town, and today I have stayed in. I slept until about 10am this morning before a call from an estate agent woke me, but I felt rested and much better than yesterday.

Once up, I started looking for yoga podcasts on Itunes and found one really good one that focused on the knees. It was about 11 minutes long (free on Itunes) and was more about massage of the feet, calves and thighs than about actual stretching BUT did the job well. It was from yoga today and called "Theraputic knee exercise" with Yoga Today. I did two other sessions from that organization, back relief and hip opening lunges. The lunges were good, but my back is still a bit sore!! That took me up to about 40 minutes of yoga. I want to try and do the knee exercise everyday as I was impressed and I need to work on the alignment of my feet. I have bunyons which I think are part of the problem of the pain I feel - everything is just slightly wonky to start with!

(In the middle of my yoga session the Estate Agent arrived with prospective tenants. There I was on the floor in my undies! Fortunately the front door is a flight of stairs away, so I had time to find some trousers before they made it up the stairs. The Estate Agent was an hour later than she had said she would be!!)

My mind is feeling stronger today, though. A good sleep and talk with my husband about it has probably helped. Although I think my concerns about being ready for the 5K are probably justified. I have been researching training a bit more on the web and found one site that recommended running five days a week to get fit. Any suggestions? I'm wondering if I need to add another day of running into my schedule. Also a little bit of yoga can go a long way to steadying my mind. Today I can see the benefits of changing my lifestyle and the good things about this goal.