I Did It!!

I just ran for 30 minutes straight!! Now that may not seem like a big deal to some of you who may be reading this, but for me, it's huge! It took me over a year and multiple tries at this training program, but I finally did it and I'm so excited! I did a little over 2 miles in that 30 minutes, which I know is still super slow, but I'm more worried about endurance than speed right now. I signed up for the Fort Worth Zoo Run 5K that's in a week and a half, so now my goal is to somehow add another mile(ish) to what I just did. Who would have ever thought a year and a half ago that I'd be running a 5K?!

Week 7

Ok so it's been awhile since I updated... But I've been running! I finished week 7, day 1 today, which is the furthest I've ever been in my program. I ran for 20 minutes, walked for 1, and then ran for 9 minutes. It was hard but I did it! Sarah and I are signing up for the zoo run that's on April 21st. My goal is simply to run the whole thing without walking, no matter how slow. I think that's a pretty reasonable goal... Hopefully I'll be able to finish these last 2 weeks in schedule and then have a couple of weeks to work on speed.

Week 1

Finished Week 1 of 8 yesterday.  Also my friend Sarah and I created a Google doc to help us keep each other accountable in our running, so I think that's going to be a great motivator as well.  All in all, Week 1 was pretty good, and I'll step up to Week 2 tomorrow!

Reset

So shortly after the last post I made on here (like the next day I think), I rolled my foot at the park while playing with the little girl I take care of... I really thought for a little while that I had broken it, but thankfully I didn't... However, it still put me out of commission for awhile, and then there were the holidays... so I haven't run very much over the past month and half or so.  I've been back in Ft. Worth for a couple weeks now and I've only been a couple of times so I've lost a lot of the gains I had made last semester...

I'm now restarting my 8 weeks to 5k training program and I plan on doing the Fort Worth Zoo 5K at the end of April.  A friend of mine mentioned it last night and I thought it sounded like a good idea, so I mentioned it to a couple other friends and I think we're going to make it happen.  I'm determined to get back on track and actually finish this thing this time!  Today was Week 1, Day 1 and so far so good!

Halfway There

Finished Week 4 today... I've missed a few days here and there, but I've actually hung in there pretty well the past few times.  Could have to do with it being SO COLD!  Today was 2 10 minute runs and an 8 minute run.  I went a little further before I turned around, so it was probably 2 1/2- 2 3/4 miles... did it in 46 minutes.  I know that's still super slow, but right now I'm just focusing on doing it.  I guess speed will be my goal next year :)

Week 3

Started Week 3 today.  I had to repeat a day of Week 2 since I had taken a couple days off, but now I'm back on track and today's run was actually pretty good.  5 5-minute runs with 1 minute walking in between.

Week 2

Started week 2 today... Run 2 minutes, walk 1, repeat 10 times... I could definitely tell that I haven't run since last Wednesday, but I guess considering that, it wasn't too too bad.  As always, pretty slow, particularly towards the end, but I'm ok with that.  Keeping on keeping on.