I haven’t been very good about keep this blog up.  But I’ll try to do better.  So it’s February.  I’m down 30 pounds since I ended my relationship with  my last job.  I have been doing a few things.  I was just going to the gym and doing the weights and elliptical.  Then recently I hurt my back.  Now I wasn’t sure if I should not do anything or what.  So after reading a bunch of articles I was made aware that it is better to move than to not!  Walking, sitting and standing too long hurt.  (by the way I have no idea what the heck I did!)  So someone suggested that I go to the pool to work on strengthening it.  You know walk around in the water for a while.  Well anyone who knows me knows that I can’t just “walk around in water.”  My DNA is not programed like that.  So I get in the pool.  I paddle around for a bit.  I tread water.  Do some leg lifts and stretch and stuff.  Next thing I know I’m doing laps.  You know that was going to happen.  And then of course being me, I have to see how long it takes me to swim a lap at each stroke.  Then I have to figure out how many laps is a mile.  Then I figure out my new training plan.  See…I can’t “JUST” do something.  It’s impossible.

Of course then I got talking to someone at the pool and she mentioned that she swims and walks the wave pool backwards to help with her running.  Oh see, she so shouldn’t have told me this.  I go home and come up with my new training plan.  Monday, Wednesday, Friday I run.  Tuesday Elliptical and Thursday and Sunday I swim.

So Monday was one of those strange days…interview, things happened.  Back was pretty bad.  But Tuesday I got out and tested the run.  I took it slow. I had every intention on just walking, but again being me, I did a run/slow jog.  2 miles in like 32 min.  For me that was really taking it easy.  Then today I went out.  Back felt a little better.  So did 2.28 miles in 31 minutes.  Still taking it a little slow.  I’ll eventually get back up too where I was.  It’s going to take a little bit of time.

I’m taking this week as my transition week.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a swim day, so we’ll see how that goes.  Last time I went I did 20 laps in 40 min.  So of course I have to beat that time or at a minimum do the same.  It’s like with any exercise.  I look at my last time I did and my goal is to beat that. Good thing I’m not competitive.

Tonight I’m reading more about this running thing and what I’m going to do.  I think I”m going to keep with the Couch to 5K thing for now.  My goal is to do a 10 minute mile.  To run from our house, around the lake and back.  Which is about 5 miles.  So I would love to be able to do this in an hour.  My goal is to be able to do this by the Mud runner in July.

I really need to do a straight 5K before I do this Mud run.  Would be good for me to get some sort of experience rather than just jump into that.  So maybe I’ll shoot for one in May or June. (or both!)  But as soon as I get a job I will go and register for one for sure!