Day 1

Today technically isn't day one, but it is day one following my new plan.

Before I left for my walk/run I re-read my magazines again and wrote down a few key points to remember. I am horrible with remembering to stretch, but I know it's really important, so I did my stretches and then was out the door.

I always make the mistake of jumping the gun, so to speak, and running right away. My plan for week one is to walk for the first 5 minutes, run 2 minutes, and walk 4 minutes. Since I've been sick all day I figured I would just take a nice, brisk walk just to get something in for today. As I started walking I felt great.

I know a lot of people hate running with an ipod, but I can't do without it. I love being able to blast my favorite songs and just get lost in the music for the 2 miles I've been doing. I have enough thoughts during the day and I don't need anymore time with just my thoughts, haha.

I also am hoping to get a watch with a timer for keeping better time during my runs. Since I don't have one at the moment, I decided to walk one song and run one song. Most of my songs average 4 minutes so I figured that I would try and figure out the 2 minute mark in the song, but I was just feeling great today.

I ended up walking the first 5 minutes and then I did run one song and walk one song. I thought about stopping, but I felt pretty good so I decided to just go with it. The run to walk ratio was perfect. My lungs weren't killing me too bad and my legs were feeling strong.

I got to experience another first...running in the rain. Thank the Lord that it was pouring because I had a whole mile until I was home, but it was a drizzle and it actually felt nice.

All in all my first day on my new plan went very well! I can't wait to run again tomorrow!