First Run...April 2nd, 2010

So, I could not put it off any longer!

Last Friday, Emilia and Olivia were at her parents for the afternoon, and I was going to go there after work. I stopped at home to change, it was a beautiful spring day, and I decided that this was the day that I went for my first training run of the year. So my plan was to follow the Couch to 5K plan, and cut the ramp up time in half to get to the 5K by the beginning of May. The first day it called for alternating 60 seconds of running with 90 seconds of walking, for a total of 20 minutes, plus a 5 minute warm up and warm down.

So I left the house with my egg timer and walked down towards Millennium Park. About 15 seconds into my run, the egg time quit working, so I had no way to time my running/walking intervals! Well, Emilia runs the park all the time, so on a walk she once told me that one loop (that I had never walked) was about a mile long, so I figured I could walk/run that loop and be okay.

Well, 40 minutes later, I stumble back into the house, exhausted and feeling like I was going to die. Later I told Emilia that the loop was a lot longer than a mile, but she insisted that it was a short loop that she and Lindsay would run for their "warm-up". I told her that if I only ran/walked 1 mile in 40 minutes than I should quit right now!

Later, we found out that the loop was almost 2-1/2 miles.

At the end of the day, not a bad start...