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When failure isn’t really failure
Anyone else realize that it’s really Day 15 of my 30 days of running and I haven’t updated since Day 6? Um, yeah, well … lets just call this project a big, fat, failure. *hanging head in shame* Here’s the truth – I’m completely afraid of hurting myself. And hobbling around for 4 days with minor shin splints was enough for me to take a step back and re-evaluate what I’m doing. One of the things I love about goals is that they’re always open to revisions and tweaks. We’ve all had to revise goals – either making them more or less challenging. And, for a while there, I was really disappointed in my inability

Days 5 & 6 of running
Day 5 – big fat skip. My shins were hurting pretty bad, so I took that as a sign to take it easy. Day 6 – I had quite the busy day – a dr. appt at 8 a.m., then work from 9:30-5:30. I made a point to bring my clothes with me to work so I could use the treadmills in the gym at work. This was the first time I’d used our gym, and boy was I disappointed. I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get the treadmill to do a ‘manual’ setting where I could adjust the speed as I needed. So, about 2 minutes into the run, the speed dropped to 1 and the incline increased. UGH. I did a quick half-mile and then vowed to make sure I drove to

Day 4 of running
Despite my little injury yesterday, I sucked it up and went out for a quick little 1-mile run this afternoon with the hubby. My shins didn’t bother me until I got home, at which point I iced them after a shower and now they’re feeling pretty good. (Course, I haven’t attempted to climb stairs in the last 5 hours, so that may change shortly.) My one-mile loop took 12:30. Pretty darn good considering Scott is just starting to get into running/jogging and he said this was probably the most he’s ever ran. I’m pretty proud of him for jumping into this adventure – and having lost almost 20 lbs in the last month! I’m actua

Day 3 of running
I woke up totally ready to just skip running, but after seeing a sweet comment from my mom on my last post, I knew I had to do it. Even though it was VERY little running, and a LOT of walking. See, I was feeling the beginning of shin splints. Not cool. Scott and I did the loop near his place – 2.8 miles total – and we probably ran/jogged about a quarter of it. I had quite the noticeable limp by the end of it. Ooops. So, stats: 2.8 miles (prob run about 3/4 mile – 1 mile) Time: about 45 min Not my most impressive time, but at least I got moving, right? I’m thinking there will be some time during this month that I