It's been a while, but I did it

I ran five miles this morning. Well, not quite five miles, but according to mapmyrun,com, it was 4.97 miles. It was the modified week 4 of the Couch to 5K program. I do the first warm-up, then do the runs 2.5 times and then walked home. I felt OK at the end. I had a slight twinge in my hip, but nothing major.



I'll run again Wednesday morning. I'd like to take Wednesday off, but because Zepheriah has a vet appointment at 10:20 Wednesday night, I know it's going to be a late night and I won't get enough sleep if I want to run Thursday morning. Tomorrow is just the four miler though.

I had my first update with Linda from the Orlando Sentinel today. I hope she gets the part in there about the cancer. It so so important that people know inflammatory breast cancer exists. Shoot, that's half the battle.

I have the calendars for several running programs, but now I need to make my own calendar of training both for the marathon and the tri winter training. I need to make that a priority for this weekend.

Start Again

I finally got around to making my event list for next year. My A races for 2008 are the breast cancer marathon in February in Jacksonville, the half-iron at Disney on May 18 (happy almost 42nd to me !!) and the Florida Challenge 70.3 in Clermont in October. I have one B race picked out so far, an olympic in April out in Clermont called the 25th Annual Great Clermont Triathlon. I'd like at least one more olympic distance in August or so just to get ready for the final half iron in October. The event calendars aren't updated for 2008 yet, but I'm sure I'll find something.

I ordered the Non-Runners Marathon Trainer again. It hasn't arrived yet, but I looked at the index. Week one is running four days, 3,4,3 and the long one this week is five. I am bumping that slightly by running 4, 5, 4, and 6 this week because I was already doing the four miles and don't care to go backwards to move forward.

I'm heading out. I weighed this weekend and was up to 192 and change. I am now at 189. This should be a heck of a lot easier when I'm 80 pounds lighter.