(I am having lots of success this week!)
I started the Couch to 5K running program last summer when Nathan was about three or four months old. "They" tell you that you can exercise when the baby is six weeks old, but I don't think I was ready last summer, well past the six week mark. But I was mostly out of shape before I got pregnant and totally out of shape while I was pregnant, so it felt really hard on my body. Or I just didn't have any discipline. I did each week of the program twice and made it to the third week, so I "ran" for five or six weeks.
I started running again in March in hopes to run my first 5K on my 25th birthday in May. I made it through seven weeks of the program before it got really hard. I couldn't run 25 straight minutes. I had to repeat week 7, and then I pulled a muscle in my leg. I took a little break from running and kept up my fitness by biking and doing aerobics with a workout video from 1985. The last two weeks, which I finished today, were a breeze.
Here's the thing, though. I didn't do it by distance; I used time. I can run 30 minutes, but when I run 30 minutes, I am nowhere close to finishing a 5K. I am maybe a little over 2 miles, which is farther than I've ever ran in my life (I ran 1.5 miles once when I was 14). So I'm counting this as a success! And hopefully one day I'll be able to actually run a 5K in 30 minutes, more or less.
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