Ahhh...for the last few weeks we've been consistently going to Cardinal Fitness and running on the treadmill. I started at 10 minutes...then I started going by distance instead of time. I got up to 2.2 miles (last week sometime). This week the sun has been out and melted a bit of the snow & the temp has gotten up into the 30s and 40s, so we decided to head back outside to run. It turns out that I run faster & better outside! This past Monday, I ran 2.8 miles!!! I didn't time myself, but I knew what songs I ran through on my iPod, so I just went into iTunes to add up the minutes, and realized it only took me 28 minutes to do that!!!!! That is absolutely amazing. At the gym I was pushing it to run a 12-minute mile. Outside I'm doing almost a 10-minute mile...I think it's because on the treadmill you're constantly thinking about it and looking at the display to see how fast you're going, how long it's been, how many tenths of a mile you have left to go, and on and on so it feels more difficult than it should. Anyway, today we backed off and did 2.2 miles...we're going to try and do 2 easy runs a week (like today), and a 5k for our long run. Also!! We officially signed up for the Ringing in Spring 5k (April 2nd)!! And as soon as I have the money I'm going to sign us up for the Flying Pig in Cincinnati, which is a 5k, 10k, Half & Full marathon. Steve's cousins John & Karen are going to run it with us...it's May 1. We're hoping to do the 10k in that one...so our plan of action is to continue running 5ks once a week for the next couple weeks, and then to transition into the 10k training schedule. The hope is that we'll be running 10ks before we even run our first official 5k. That way we'll be on track to be ready for the Flying Pig, because there's only a month between the two & that would be a tall order to go from 5k to 10k in four weeks.
Phew! Anyway :) I also signed up for the Avon Walk again, which I'm soooo excited about because Steve is going to do it with me this year!!! We need to scrounge together the money to register him so we can form a team and start getting donations. It makes me happy to be doing healthy things together as a couple :) What an amazing man.
Gotta get going! Teaching 2 classes this afternoon!
