Creating the new me

Well I signed up for my first 5K, it’s on May 10th…that’s coming up pretty soon.  I would have never thought I would run/jog for leisure. It is really hard for me,  I feel like I’m gonna pass out, but I love it at the same time.

I have never been a runner. Even in High School when I weighed 105 lbs I still couldn’t run and ran like a 20 minute mile…seriously. I just was never fit, never had any muscles, and was lazy. I hated to breathe hard and sweat, so I never did.

I got on the treadmill at the Y last night and I have been doing between 2 and 2.5 miles, jogging about half the distance.  Well last night I went for a total of 3 miles and was jogging for 2 of them :)  YEAH ME! I wanted to test it out to make sure that I could do it without dieing…and I did! 

This 5K will definately be a challenge, but I don’t have any huge goals or expectations of myself. I just want to give it my all, but finish at the same time. Then I’ll have a baseline for future “fun runs”  (that should be an oxymoron).  There is another local one here in July, so hopefully I will be able to improve my time for that one. I’ll let you know how it turns out!

 Well I just got back from WI. I am up one pound from my last WI on 1/10.  Boy that’s a long time between official WI’s. I do have to say that I am extremely annoyed by the small gain. I know. I had a vacation in there. But still, I have been working so hard lately at the Gym and at my eating.

Oh, well I am not going to let it discourage me. Just think of the loss I’ll see next week. 

Personal side note for gym progress - 40 minutes on treadmill. 2.25 miles. 10 minutes jogging