Does Fear Burn Calories?

I am seriously wigging out, y'all.

Tomorrow, according to my Couch-to-5k app, I will be doing 5 minutes of jogging at a time. Three times. There are no smaller amounts of jogging than 5 minutes in this workout.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Do you know how bone-crushingly slow my jog becomes when I'm in the last 2 minutes of a 5-minute jog? Aenemic hermit crabs would out-run me. The whole world narrows to the burn in my calves and my mind gasps out Dory's motto with each step: Just. Keep. Swim. -Ing. Just. Keep. Swim. -Ing.

I know there are some of you who jog this much at a time. Some of you (gasp!) might even jog ten minutes at a time. I am simply not there yet. At all. In any way. There are lots of steps between me and there. Tomorrow is just another step. Just another step. Just another ooo-maybe-I'll-wake-up-with-stomach-flu totally scary step.

The number: 254