Ran another two miles this morning.  We took a week off due to weather and wanting to heal various aches and pains.  When we restarted, the first two runs were pretty miserable.  Today - the third run after restart - went surprisingly well.  I'd planned to walk a bit in the middle if I needed to, but everything seemed OK, so we ran the entire way ( Read more... )

Ran two miles again today.  Slightly faster this time. It's still not fun when I'm doing it.  I want to stop after about ten minutes...which is, (not) coincidentally, about the time I get to the top of the hill in the park.  It's as much a mental exercise as a physical one at that point.  But today, for the fourth time, we managed to keep going for ( Read more... )

Ran 2 miles today.

Hard to really explain how extraordinary that is.  I think the last time I did that was probably about 14 years ago.

I am pleased.  Tired, but pleased.

I believe in being prepared ( Read more... )

I ran for 20 minutes today without stopping.  Do you know how long it's been since I could do that?  How many years?  I feel fantastic!  This C25K thing is actually working.  I just hope I can keep it up without managing to break something.  :)

In the Couch-to-5K program, we're currently at an eight-minute run, followed by a five minute walk, then another eight-minute run.  Technically, if we were doing the program exactly as written, this run would have only been done once, and the next run would be a full 20 minutes.  However, we're going the slow route.  There are times when I wish I ( Read more... )

Dare I say...perhaps this is getting a tiny bit easier?  Today my pace seemed appropriate, and yet I wasn't panting and puffing as much as I'm used to.  I was waiting for that part of the run to start, that part where my legs feel heavy and I can't seem to breathe deeply, and that part just...didn't happen.  Halfway through the last interval, I ( Read more... )

Today's run was pretty rough.  I wouldn't have made it through the entire thing if tegyrius wasn't there.  It was the same distance as Thursday, but I think it was warmer and more humid today.  The only thing that got me through the last interval was imagining all the little various cells inside me getting stronger and healthier.  Monday's supposed to be ( Read more... )

I find, disconcertingly, that I have no idea how fast I am running.  tegyrius tells me after the fact, "That was really slow," or sometimes, "That was really fast."  I'm just putting one foot in front of the other at a pace that seems appropriate.  Never had this problem on a treadmill, obviously.  Must ponder. 

If anyone had told me a year ago that I would voluntarily...perhaps even happily...get up at 6 am on a Saturday to go running in the rain, I would have thought they had lost their marbles.