A little behind....

Yup! It has come to my attention that I've been neglecting to blog about all my efforts at training. So here's the update, last Thursday I ran for 1.5 miles. I was able to shave off about a minute from my last time. Hooray for improvement! Thursday night I had gone out pretty late to the batting cages with people from my softball team. I was pretty exhausted Friday morning, so I took a break from exercising. My wrist was killing me from trying to bat inside a medium pitch softball cage. Those suckers were flying fast, and even when I did hit the ball, my arm felt so much pain. This weekend I didn't get much training in, unless shopping at Woodfield Mall counts for my hour walk. I stayed the weekend over at my sister's house. We needed to shop for outfits for my nephew's Christening next weekend. Unfortunately I didn't see anything I liked (however I did buy a dress....but as soon as I tried it on at my house I didn't like it anymore), and going shopping with a baby can be difficult. Can carrying the baby around be considered lifting weights? Anyways shopping on Saturday was so exhausting that all of us took a nap as soon as we got back to my sister's home. I ended up crashing the night there again. Sunday morning I attempted to look for an outfit one more time...still nothing. Plus I had to leave because Sunday was my day for softball. I did pretty good at the game.
This morning I ran 1.5 miles, with a time of 22:18 mins. I'm hoping to get through 1.75 miles on Wednesday in 25 mins. We'll just have to wait and see how this one will go.

So close!!!

So yesterday I didn't quite reach the goal I set for myself. I did run 1.5 miles, but it took me about 23:40. I was doing alright the first mile running and walking. The extra half mile kinda threw me off, so I walked majority of it. I don't usually push myself to run over a mile...but now I have to. I took a breather from running this morning...I hope I can get some strength training or something like that done after work....assuming I ever leave work.

Taking a test drive

I got most of the gear to help me run (the only thing left on my list of stuff to get are knee braces)...I went to Fleet Feet on Saturday and got my pretty new running shoes and a new dry fit shirt (Yes! That is a picture of me test running shoes). I'm attempting to do my training in the morning so I know I get it done. Unfortunately it requires me to wake up at 5:00 A.M. because of work and stuff. Blah! I moved so slowly this morning because I got up so early. I stretched out for a couple mins and then tested out my running shoes. I love them :) I ran/walked for about 17 mins, I went a little over a mile. I got off the treadmill and stretched a little more and then got ready for work. During my lunch break today I went to DSW with the girls from work...I was going to buy a new pair of flip flops but I opted to buy more dry fit socks instead. My goal for tomorrow is to run/walk 1.5 miles in 20 mins.

What have I gotten myself into?

So evidently...I promised to run the Bucktown race...and here I am...I'm trading in my boots for running shoes, courtesy of Mike and Barb. It's only a 5k race and I have until October to be ready for it so I figure that gives me plenty of time to train for then :) . I'm in the process of getting the gear to help me get started...and hopefully keep up with it. I have a tendency to go exercise happy for a week and then completely stop for the next several weeks. But since I've signed up for the race and already bought an Ipod , that should keep my motivation up. Now all I need are new running shoes and I will have no excuse to start my training.