Update

I've been doing well with my running but forgot to upate, so I'll catch up here.

On Saturday I did 3 miles on the treadmill.

I rested Sunday.

On Monday and Tuesday I didn't stick with the start of the training schedule because we went to a party on Sunday and had friends in town Monday evening and were up late both evenings so I let Monday and Tuesday slide for the training schedule but I did walk at lunch with the girls at work both days and did about 3 miles each day.

This morning I got up and did 2 miles on the treadmill (in accordance with my training schedule). The first day actually calls for stretching and strength training but it also says feel free to mix up the days, so I decided to start with the 2 mile run first.

I feel great today and today was the first day that it was easy to get up (although I did get to bed early last night to guarantee that I could get up). Hopefully things just get better from here!!

Over the weekend I also bought a bike trailer for the kids. I hope to get a couple days in of bike riding each week as well. I was planning on going tonight since it's beautiful today but I have about a million loads of laundry to do tonight as well. We'll see which one wins!! If laundry wins then the bike ride will be tomorrow night.

2 More Miles Today

I got up this morning and did 2 miles today. I REALLY didn't feel like getting up this morning but I talked myself into it and felt better afterwards. Good news is that we got satellite (with DVR) installed on the TV in the work-out room, so now I can actually watch my shows while I run!!! YAY! That will make my long runs when I don't run outside go much more quickly.

2 Miles Today

I got up and did 2 miles this morning. I am still having issues with being able to get up early in the mornings, but I just keep reminding myself that I will be disappointed if I don't get up and just do it, so I am able to talk myself into getting up. Once I get up and start running I feel great! But, it's just the actual getting out of bed part that's hard for me. Gary says the first two weeks are the hardest and then you get into a routine, so I will just keep pushing myself for these first two weeks and hope that it will keep getting easier. Until then I have to have a 20-minute conversation with myself every morning in order to talk myself into getting out of bed early!!!

Anyway, I hope to do 2 more miles tomorrow morning, 3 miles on Saturday and then Sunday I will start my "official" half-marathon training. Sunday calls for strength training only.

Feeling Motivated Again...

I'm back and I'm feeling motivated again. I took off running for a while - I just couldn't get back in to it, but I've been feeling that itch again and seeing the pounds add up on the scale, so I decided to get into a program again. I am starting a half-marathong training schedule to run a half-marathong in September. This is my first week - it's my warm-up week, so I'm not on the "official" schedule yet, but I will start that next week. Yesterday I did 1.5 miles and today I did 2 miles, plus I walked across the river with my friend at work today which was probably another 2.5 miles easily. I plan to run again tomorrow and then will stick to the training schedule next week, which calls for 6 days of either running or cross-training and then 1 day off. I hope to stick to the schedule as much as possible and will post my updates here. Gary is also going to run a rac with me - I think we are going to do a 5k in June. We need to buy a double jogger or two single joggers though so we can take the kids with us - I want them to be involved too!!