I went for a run!

Attention everyone: we have an exercise victory! I went for a run! Now, after not running in probably over a month, and prior to that I wasn't really working on my "running" I was pushing my way through 4 miles on the treadmill, walking most of it, I finally went out yesterday after work. I must say, I'm really proud of myself. I can still run for 5 minutes straight! Yes, I walked most of my roughly 2.3 mile outing yesterday, but I still got out and tried to run again.

Back in December I ran (most of) a 5K, and I thought that I would always be able to run a 5K, even if I didn't keep running. Yeah, dumb thought, but that's what I thought nevertheless. Now, almost 4 months later, I miss that running. It took me from May to December to almost finishCouch-to-5K, a program for people that need a training program to get them running. I know what I did wrong, I did the program by time instead of by distance. I have short legs, and I can't run a 10 minute mile quite yet, and that's how the C25K program is designed. That's why I didn't do the best I could at the 5K, because I trained wrong.

Looking back, it's nice to know what I did, and I want to get into running again. I should get myself up in the morning and to the gym for my workout since I don't really have a lot of time with my school schedule. But who honestly wants to get up at 4:30am and go to the gym? I'll have a lot of trouble convincing myself that I want to do that. So it's going on my list of things that I want to do once I graduate and get my life back. I know, that's a terrible plan. So with it getting warmer, hopefully I can convince myself to get back out and running again. I'd love to run a 5K and a 10K, I think I can do that, even if I can't get myself to run that daunting 26.2 miles eventually, but who knows what I can do once I put my mind to it. I know I don't even know.

How did you start out running? Did you ever loose interest in it? What's your favorite exercise?