I ran after I arrived home last night and I did go more than a mile. Not much more. Maybe a quarter mile. I kept a pretty slow pace. My mile was about 12 minutes which puts me at 5 mph. My total run time was 14:53. I want to build up my strength so that when I go for a run, I can do 20 minutes easily. I'm not quite there yet.
I will run again tonight and that will be 5 consecutive days of exercise. I think this blog can take part of the credit for that. I have been reluctant to let a day go by without being able to post some sort of workout news here.
Just a warning though. I doubt I'll have any workout news for Saturday or Sunday. I'll probably take those days off.
Later that day: I am happy to report that this Blog is indeed serving its purpose. I came home tonight and didn't really want to run because I had stopped after work and had a beer. But, I made the promise to myself to get in a workout and the prospect of having to report here that I didn't was enough to make me run.
And a good run it was. I decided to go for time rather than distance. I ran my mile in 10:59. That made me very happy to see I was able to push myself enough to break the eleven minute mark. My next goal will be to get to the 10 minute mark. That's a pace of 6 mph and a difficult milestone for me to reach. I can build up the endurance to go for distance but I have never been good at combining speed with distance.
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