I had lunch with a good friend (who is also a marathon runner, has a degree in exercise science and fitness and personal trainer) who also just had a little baby boy. Even though she tried to continue running during pregnancy, she didn’t log the amount of miles she was used to. She told me she’s back to running about 2 miles and starting to slowly work upward. I was also surprised to hear that while she used to be able to bang out push ups, crunches, sit ups, etc. she now can barely do one sit up. I was amazed to hear how much muscle tone she’d lost!
She told me about a fun 5K for women in our area. She said it’s not competitive at all and most women alternate between walking and running. She was going to run it as her first one after having the baby and suggested it would be a good jumping off point for me too.
The date? October 1! This means I have barely three weeks to train for this thing, but I’m going to do it anyway.
I tried running on the treadmill about a week or so ago and did pretty well. I started with the usual 2 minute runs with 3 minute walks for about an hour and held my own. Tonight I’m going to just “see what I can do” as far as running the 5K. My treadmill has a setting for one, so I figure I’ll run at a pretty easy pace.
I know running in this race so soon I’ll probably walk some of it, but I’m okay with that. It will be fun to try and see what I can do and knowing I’m doing this will boost me to work out regularly.
By the way, doing Weight Watcher’s last week I’m down 3.2 pounds and totally excited!
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