That's A Little Better

It seems I made a silly mistake yesterday...I didn't stretch after!! 😱  I thought that since it was only 1 mile I'd be fine.  Well, since I haven't really done any running at all since December, that wasn't the case.  At all.  Even my ribs are sore today 😩  But I know the best way to get rid of that is to push through it, run again, and STRETCH after!  And so I did.  I'm still stretching as I write this, LOL.

I think I was a little hesitant to push myself yesterday since it was the first run in a long while so I went a little bit faster today.  It's still not a great time, but I don't know if I could have held out at that speed for much longer anyway.  I gradually increased from 5 up to a 7 by the end.  It's not great, but it's definitely better - I did 1 mile in 11 minutes.

I've still got about 3 weeks to get up to snuff and I'm not sure what the best plan is as far as what to work on first/more...speed or distance.  I know I have to flip flop with that so we will see what I come up with.

Ugh.  I hate running so much.

Super Slow

I know, I know, I know.  I'm the world's worst runner and the world's worst blogger.  I didn't even post about actually meeting my running goal of 2017 miles in 2017, but I DID meet it!  Woo hoo!!

It's been a slow start for me in 2018.  I didn't sign up for any races until May, and I am hoping to be prepared for this one and to actually post a decent time for the first time in a long time.  For those of you who didn't know, I had a small procedure done a few weeks ago and today was the first day I really felt up to running.  Of course the NJ weather gods doomed me and it's cold and rainy out so it was down to the dreadmill for me.

I didn't have high hopes for distance at all so I was aiming for 1 mile of straight running and I did that no problem.  But speed is absolutely an issue for me.  Usually I can do an easy mile between 9:30-10:00 and today it was 11:51. 😩  SOOOO slow!!!  Hopefully I can speed that up my race day on May 5th.  And crazy me also signed up for a second race 2 weeks later 😨 so I should do better this year than I have been.  As much as I hate running, I hate the way that I feel & look right now even more and running is the fastest way to help with that.  Wish me luck!!