The Farnsworth Family is taking over! And it's all because of Lybi. Lybi is my sister-in-law. She came for a visit and we went running together this morning. After our run I thought it sounded like fun to get on the blog so that I have someone to keep track of me and help motivate me.
I had my first baby two months ago. At 6 weeks postpartum I began running on the elliptical for five minutes. Since then I have been running on the elliptical 6 days a week and have added a minute to my workout every day. I have also added more resistance as well. Today was my first outside run since I got pregnant. During my pregnancy I would do fast walking three days a week. Today we ran for 25 minutes and about 2.5 miles.
I was VERY tired after our run. I am in an online jogging class and we are supposed to keep track of or heart rates. We are supposed to workout between 60-70% of our VO2 max. For me right now my heart rate should be between 150-160. Today my heart rate was above 180. Oops. That's a bit too high J Now my legs and my hips and my abs are all sore.
I may have worked too hard today, but I still feel good about my run. It was good to finally have a nice long outside run. Also, the elliptical didn't say I had run 1 mile until I had hit 18 minutes. In high school I could run and 8 or 9 minute mile and even though I'm not really in shape, I didn't think I was really running 20 minute miles. That would be way sad. So it's good to know that I'm running about a 10 minute mile, which is about what I always run when I'm out of shape. So even though I am sore, today's run makes me feel good about myself. It's a lot more encouraging than that dang elliptical and that horrible scale that keeps telling my I've stopped losing weight. I also had fun running with Lybi. It's too bad we can't run together more but at least we can be running blog pals.
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