Mandy's meanderings!

After a frustrating morning, my run was really good.  We missed our morning walk yesterday due to the weather.  The kids are getting pretty good at the one mile walk.  Most of the time I'm trying to keep up with them now, which is great.

For my run, I did a .25 mile warm-up, then ran 3.10 miles at 6.3 mph to 6.5 mph.  I did take a few 30 second breaks, but I finished a 5k in 29:40 minutes.  Yeah!  I finished with a .4 mile cool down.  Total time was 38:20.  It felt good to push myself a little bit.

Yesterday we managed to squeeze in our walk right before bedtime.  I was actually proud of the fact we still got it in.  Today's walk was great.  Morning is definitely a better time than evening, and I think our dog would agree.

My run today was pretty good.  The charger for the shuffle is still eluding me, so boredom is my biggest issue in not stopping.  I did finish the 5k in under 30 minutes again.  Hopefully I'll be back to my 26 minutes time in the next few months. I kept the speed at 6.4 for the majority of the run, and bumped it up to 6.5 for the last lap.  It felt really good to stretch out the kinks afterwards.  Total time was 38:40 with the warm up and cool down.

Today was one of those mornings. I really had to force myself to get going. Our walk was a little slower and the kids kept demanding my attention so I was beginning to think my run wasn't going to happen. Once I started it felt good. I wanted to see an actual time for a running 5k, and I did it in 28:30 minutes. So I'm getting there. I kept the speed at 6.4 the whole run, but bumped it up to 6.5 mph for the last .25 mile and increased the incline to 1. Total time for the run was 37:30 minutes.