Running

I got in 4 walk/runs this week for a total of 6.3 miles. I haven’t been following the C25K routine minute by minute.   Instead, being a country girl, I’ve been regulating my running by telephone poles.  The first week I’d walk the distance between 2 telephone poles, then run between the next two poles,...
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…is the number of miles I walked/ran this past week.  A mile and a half more than last week, and about a minute faster per mile on average.  I’m up to the rip-roaring speed of 15:30/mile.  And yes, that is running about 1/3 of the time.  Speedy I am not. Seems like the lungs...
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Well, I survived the first week of the C25K program – exercised 3 days for a total of 4.5 miles, 26 minutes of which were running. The workouts didn’t seem terribly hard on my legs– hardly any sore muscles afterward.  But  the cardio– yikes.  I get breathing hard in no time flat– obviously my...
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OK, I can’t tell you how much I stewed over writing this post, but I’m just gonna do it.  I’ve decided to start the Couch to 5K fitness program.  I keep hearing about it, how it can actually turn a couch potato (like me) into a fit person (something I’d like to be, but...
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