This page is where I’m going to keep track of my progress or perhaps that’s training since I am intending on competing in a marathon. Of which I will name here as soon as I find one. I haven’t run in years more than once in a while. So this will be fun to get back into. I’d like to also add a bicycle tour that I can do with my kids. As soon as I find that I’ll date and list it here too. =) Oh and side note here - whether I say ‘jog’ or ‘run’ I mean jog — no way am I ‘running’ just yet. 
UPDATE*** I found the marathon I want to do! Its in October so I have time to actually get in shape. =) IMT Des Moines Marathon - Sunday, October 19th. I’m so excited! And yes, nervous! I’ll feel better about it once I know I start actually getting some Sunday’s under my belt where I make it more than 2 miles for distance. But hey! I’ve just started with only a partial week under my belt so, one thing at a time. 
I’m going to send in my registration this week so I’m ‘committed’. Oh boy, gives me butterflies just thinking about sending in the registration…do you have any idea how long its been since I competed? Man, am I getting old or what!??! LOL
UPDATED*** I’m all signed up for my marathon! Here’s my hat for proof!
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Monday June 16th: It says rest or walk…I have to cut lawns today…so definitely a rest day!
Sunday June 15th: I swear the weather is conspiring against me!!!! I had everything ready to go for my run early in the morning knowing we had a day full ahead of us–Thundering and Lightening–again! sigh–I went in the evening. The goal was 22KM, I decided about an hour into it that I had better revise it to only be a 2 hour run no matter what. Two reasons–my dog wasn’t happy and truly we hadn’t been keeping true to the schedule so that this was really a huge leap for us. I need to double check things but I believe we went about 19 or 20 KM’s and ran for about 2 hours and 15 minutes. AND it was a bit too much for me. I don’t mean as far as making it…I was still going strong but I desperately wanted water and got a bit sick afterwards. Not fun. I’m sure the main reason is though I had no issues running, my body simply wasn’t ready for such a leap in distance and time. I may have been getting exercise in, runs in, feel that an hour run of 5-6 miles is perfect and feel awesome afterwards, the last few weeks but it has been really sporadic and thus…I felt it. Oh and one more thing–don’t eat porkchops an hour before you go running. YUCK!
Saturday June 14th: Supposed to be a day of rest but went for an easy walk
Friday June 13th: 65 minute run outside with dog — between 5 & 6 miles
BREAK–well in recording things here: Oh, yeah one thing after another has affected my being able to follow a pattern of any sort here. I have kept up with things for the most part in some fashion–just didn’t get them noted here. Thankfully, life seems to have finally gotten back in order and I’m BACK on schedule! And one way or another I plan to stay on track.
Monday May 12th: Decided to start taking Kia with me. This would be her first time and I didn’t want to over do it for her. We ran for an hour, 30 minutes one way, turned around and headed back. It went really well. I’ve mapped it since and it measures in at 5.44 miles - 8.75 KM. A bit under my goal for today(14KM) but I’m pleased. She made it no problem. This should work out great!
Sunday May 11th: Rain…and more rain. Cold and windy rain. :-( When it finally stopped I couldn’t fit in a run but I did get about 40 minutes of chasing kids in the park. And I don’t mean figuratively but literally. And THAT is trying! They’re fast! And its so different than just straight running…you have to jump over things, duck, climb, swerve, dodge, sprint…I was tired.
WEEK
Saturday May 10th: went for a walk out side with my son
Friday May 9th: 30 minute run - outside down to park and on trail. Was awesome.
Thursday May 8th: 40 minute walk outside with my youngest and it was sunny! YAY!
Wednesday May 7th: Couldn’t fit it in nohow! So I decided to swap this as my rest day and not rest on Saturday.
Tuesday May 6th: 30 minutes on the Elliptical machine–program 1
Monday May 5th: 20 minute walk outside
Sunday May 4th: 8 mile run–new route–loved it! Just over my goal time at 1hour 35 minutes. Was really, really windy. I need to get outside more for the runs to get used to the weather affects.
WEEK
Saturday May 3rd: Supposed ot be a day of rest but considering I took a day off in the middle of the week I’m going for a walk today
Friday May 2nd: 30 minute run(just over 3 miles at speed 6, no program machine) - 5 minutes walk cool down
Thursday May 1st: 40 minute hard walk
Wednesday April 30th: Rest day(not intentional but time was an issue)
Tuesday April 29th: 20 minute run of stairs
Monday April 28th: 20 minute walk
Sunday April 27th: 6 mile run — First 3 miles under my goal of 30 minutes at 25 minutes, the second 3 miles at 35 minutes.
WEEK
Saturday April 26th: walk
Friday April 25th: walk
Thursday April 24th: walk
Wednesday April 23rd: missed
Tuesday April 22nd: 35 minutes total - 3 miles in 30 minutes - walk for 5 - speed 6
Monday April 21st: Walk
Sunday April 20th: Walk
WEEK
Wednesday and Thursday: missed
Tuesday April 16th: 30 minute walk
Sunday and Monday April 13th & 14th: Stairs…lots and lots of stairs! Went to the water park in the Dell’s and foolishly thought I was ‘taking a few days off’.
WEEK
Saturday April 12th: 3 mile run in twenty-five minutes outside–Felt great! And I was really, really happy with what that broke down into for mile splits!
Monday - Friday April 7th-11th: I forgot to get on and record these days of the week and now of course don’t recall ‘exactly’ what it is I did other than to know I did run and so forth each day
Sunday April 6th, 2008: 8 mile run - felt great - some twinges with the knee and ankle but improving, YAY! Took just under two hours –YIKES on the time but I made it *** went for a 20 minute walk later with the hubby
WEEK
Saturday April 5th, 2008: 20 minute easy walk
Friday April 4th, 2008: 35 minute run - no program machine - speed 5.5 - just over 3 miles - felt awesome, even my ankle and knee felt fine.
Thursday April 3rd, 2008: 20 minute walk, muscles were tight
Wednesday April 2nd, 2008: 40 minute run - no program machine - changed speed in about 10 minute intervals - started at 6 - moved down to 5, decided that was too slow and then went up to 5.5 — ankle and knee weren’t bad but let me know they were there
Tuesday April 1st, 2008: 30 minute bike ride
Monday March 31st, 2008: 40 minute walk
Sunday March 30th, 2008: 6 mile jog - YAY — Just jogged not sure on time as I didn’t want to push it, my left ankle is giving me some issues which leads me to pampering it then my knee starts to hurt. So I’m going to repeat these two weeks one more time as I try to get my body used to all this. —Actually went for an easy walk with my hubby later on - probably about a mile and half though. It wasn’t for exercise but conversation, still worked up a bit of a sweat though.
WEEK
Saturday March 29th, 2008: Actually took my first day off since I started this a month ago.
Friday March 28th, 2008: 30 minutes total - No program machine — 1st mile at speed 6–put me at just over a 10 minute mile–then went at speed 5 until there were 5 minutes left–walked this at speed 4
Thursday March 27th, 2008: 30 minute walk
Wednesday March 26th, 2008: I got the machine with programs– program 1, speed 6 for 2 miles, put me at about a 10 1/2 minute mile — lowered speed then to 5 until I hit 30 minutes — then walked at speed 4 until I hit 3 miles.
Tuesday March 25th, 2008: 20 minutes on the Elliptical machine(finally went and looked up the name of this thing) –easy workout
Monday March 24th, 2008: 8 mile jog — I’m sooo tickled on this! I jogged the whole way. According to my mapper it was actually 8.45 miles which works out perfect cause I walked for a couple minutes in the very beginning to warm up. It was awesome! It took about an hour and a half–I really didn’t want to run this for time, I simply wanted to make it which I did.
Sunday March 23rd, 2008: 50 minute walk - Hubby keeps detouring me with walks - so I’m going to have to move my Sunday runs to early in the morning to make sure they get done — I can then go for a walk with him later on no problem.
WEEK
Saturday March 22nd, 2008: 45 minute walk - easy
Friday, March 21st, 2008: About 35 minutes jog - wanted to make 3 miles. Started at speed, 5 as I’d done that the other day and on the machine where I could pick programs. Well, the first mile was 12 minutes. So I upped the speed until I was at 6. My goal is to get it to a 9 minute mile by October. I could have gone further today which was good. I walked for 5 minutes afterwards to cool down.
Thursday, March 20th, 2008: 30 minute walk - was a bit stiff and sore today, even while walking so decided not to bike ride or use that nordic machine. Tomorrow is another day of running so I wanted to loosen up some.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008: 37 minutes jog, program 1, speed 5, 3 minute cool down, 3.30 miles
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008: 40 minute bicycle ride, 10.10 miles, program 1
Monday, March 17th, 2008: 40 minute walk
UPDATED for yesterday’s jog/walk ~~ I am so excited! I was really worried that in the end I didn’t make at least the distance of 6 miles that I so desperately wanted to log because none of my carefully laid plans worked yesterday. But I drove what I walked and jogged and guess what? Its just over 6 miles!!!!! YAY! Oh yeah, I’m dancing. =)
Sunday, March 16th, 2008: Well, the goal was 6 miles today - not sure if I made it as my plans were swapped out slightly - the hubby decided to join me for some of it and of course chose his own route(not what I’d mapped out to know it was 6 miles 
) Then after we got back I went back out jogging most of the time. Tomorrow I will try to drive the route and get an idea of how far I went total.
WEEK
Saturday, March 15th, 2008: 30 minute easy walk
Friday, March 14th, 2008: 40 minute jog! And it was wonderful! I could have gone on longer, if I’d had the time that is, but this was perfect. I had to use a different machine, all one ‘level’ if that makes sense. Easier I guess but I went longer so it evens out some. I did the same speed though - 4.7 Said it was a distance of 3.30 miles. So now that I know I can job 40 minutes that is my part of my goal for Sunday - and then the rest of the miles is up to a jog/walk combination until I complete 6 miles.
Thursday, March 13th, 2008: 30 minute bicycle ride - program 1 - 8.8 miles(so it said) and 5 minutes walk
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008: 30 minute jog - 2.30 miles according to the machine, program 1 again, speed 4.7 and you might find this funny as I did — program 1 is not called Baby Run but rather, Bay Run. How funny is that!?! Think I was consciously editing things? And what a difference it was today. I was nervous before hand as I think I shall be for a while until I’ve done it enough times that I ‘know’ I can do it if I want.
It was awesome today though! I felt great! Not once while I was running did I find myself ‘feeling/thinking’, Can I do this? So a big YAY!
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008: 30 minute Nordic slider? I have no idea what its called but it was fun. Program 1. Then 10 minutes walking. I feel great and can’t wait actually to jog tomorrow. =)
Monday, March 10th, 2008: 30 minute hard walk
Sunday, March 9, 2008: 30 minute jog-2.25 miles(I’m so excited I jogged the whole 30 minutes!), 4.7 speed, program 1(baby run), 1 mile walk afterward on track
WEEK
Saturday, March 8th, 2008: 35 minutes cycle ride, program one - it felt great!
Friday, March 7th, 2008 : 30 minutes — jog/walk
Thursday, March 6th, 2008: 30 minutes — five minute walk warm up, 9 minute jog, 2 minute walk, 9 minute jog, rest of time used in walk(This basic is going to be called jog/walk)
(I’m not going to try and add the days before today–I exercised and made note of that on my main posts.)
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