What a day...

     I don't think I can say this loud enough..."OMGoodness!  It was freaking cold today!"  I realize I am not in the northern part of America but being out in the cold for 5 hours was horrible today!  With that being said though I got in 9.5 miles today!  Yay!  It makes up some miles I really needed.

     I should have jumped on the treadmill for my running today but after the cold and 9.5 miles walking I just couldn't move.  Put that with starting the training this week and I am pooped!  I am this way every time I start back to running.  I am so glad I have the ability to do week one over next week.  This week has been one sore week!

     Let me tell you about my first run which I thought I would die on.  I downloaded the Jeff Galloway app for the walk/run approach to my next half marathon.  I had been running 10 minute miles in the late fall so I figured that I could do that this time around too.  I "told" my app I was on the treadmill and to my HUGE surprise it told me to start running at 7.0 mph.  What?  That's like an 8:34 minute pace.  How in the world does Jeff think I can run a 8:34 minute mile?

     Needless to say...my workout went downhill after the first 2 minutes.  Ugh!  I was feeling really bad until I looked up the mph converter.  Then I felt pretty good because I could almost do the first 3 minutes at that pace.  Now you must also know that I haven't ran in a month or so.  It was quiet the challenge to not get off the treadmill and use all sorts of profanity towards it.  I made it through with my psyche in tack and still wanting to come back!  Just not tonight.

     Here are my miles for the days so far...

 

Monday

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

Wednesday

 

     Just keeping it real!  Thank you for all the support!  I also added my tracker to the top of my blog to let me know where I stand with my miles.  I'm hoping I can do this!