Wow, where has the time gone! I can't believe two more weeks have gone by since the last time I wrote, it just doesn't seem possible. I guess before I know it, this half marathon will be right on top of me!
Things in my life haven't slowed down, in fact if I didn't know any better I'd think they'd picked up! I've been trying my best to get in my extra runs during the week like I should but with the weather we've been having (some day's it's been in the high 90's with the triple H factor going on or most recently raining cats and dogs) it's just really hard.
I wouldn't say that I've been slacking though, because that's not the case for sure. On the day's that I'm not going for a run (either with my classmates or on my own), I've been trekking myself over to the Y for my workouts on the treadmill or elliptical. Occasionally I've been hitting a few group fitness classes but unlike before, those too have become a hit and miss with me.
The past two weeks in my running class we've really step things up! Last week, we attempted to run for one mile straight without stopping for our walk breaks (previously we were either doing a run for 2 minutes then walk for 1 minute, then it became run for 3 minutes then walk for 1 minute). It was amazing on how quickly this felt natural to me, so when it was decided that maybe the following week we'd try to run 1.5 miles without stopping...I was like, okay I think I can do that.
So, that brings me to this weeks class...only 2 other classmates showed up to join me but we were all ready for our first "long" run. As we set out with our 5 minute warm up, our "teachers" decided to try to keep everyone together throughout the whole run and instead of doing the usual route, we were going to change it up a little bit. You see, since some of the girls are doing the Koman Race for the Cure in September, they thought that maybe we should try to run some of the course...but no one besides myself knew what the course was. As we started our run, we did the usual beginning loop and then I ended up near the front of the group and took the lead in directions and I apologize now to my fellow classmates for the last part of our run being all up hill! In the end, we managed to run 3.3 miles (a little more than a 5k) with 2 miles of that being non-stop around 37 minutes! Next week, we're going to try to run the whole entire route (yes, that means we have to hit that oh-so-lovely hill again!)....wish us luck.
Half Marathon countdown: 58 day 2 hours and 59 minutes to go!
***Update, I completely forgot to mention this in my last post....but I am now currently at 70lbs lost!***
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