Well, I think I started too fast too much too soon.  My knees are just killing me.  It hurts whenever I put weight on them from jumping.  So I think I need to take it light for a while.  I was hoping that by taking this past weekend off it would help, but they are really sore.  Today I walked for about 30 minutes and was ok, but I really want to run.  It's a good thing my ending goal isn't for over a year!! I am most definitely not giving up.  I will start running again as soon as I can.  I just love it too much!!!

Today I only went about 2.5 miles.  But it went by soooo fast! My sweet husband got me the Mamma Mia soundtrack (probably because I couldn't stop talking about it!) and I listened to that as I ran.  It was sooo fun! The music really makes a difference.  I love running through the streets, great music up loud, and all alone.  It's sooo nice and actually very relaxing. I am loving this more and more every day.  Today I did week 2 day 2 of the c25k program.  I am doing much better than I thought I would- the 90 second runs are usually drug out to 2 somoetimes 2.5 minutes.  I have so much fun!!!  Today I was just laughing and smiling as I was listening to Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep belting it out!  It was sooo awesome!!!!  I dont' have the speed, but I did 2.5 in 30 minutes or so. But man did I have fun!!!

Yestarday I went for a very long run.  It started out just two miles, but I got lost on my new route and wound up running over 4 miles.  But my stamina was great so I had a really nice time.  Today I need to jog for 90 seconds and walk for two minutes.  Tayte slept in until 8:30 so I got to too!!! So I'll run later today.  I have such fun running.  I have my music going and adrenaline running.  It's turining out to be one of my favorite things.  I can see my body starting to change form, which is extremely exciting to me!! 

Well, I think that's it for now.  This might get a little boring, but if any of you are reading this, thanx!

Oh! My first goal is to run the Turkey Trot ~ a 10K on Thanksgiving Day.  We'll see how that goes...think possitive and it just might happen!

Today I went just a little bit further.  I went just over two miles in about 30 minutes.  I am just loving it.  It feels so good and is fun to see how far I can push my body.  My ankle and knee are a little sore today, but tomarrow's my day off so I'm not worried.  I am really loving being outside running.  It's so much funner, not stuffy like in on a treadmill in a building. 

Here goes~ I have recently seen the movie The Bucket List.  That movie has actually changed my life.  Why not try all the things your afraid of, all the things you never thought you could.  Why not?!  There's no need to wait until you only have a few months left.  I want to live my life to the very fullest every single day.  I am very lucky in that I have a husband who supports and encourages me to reach to the stars.  To him, there is nothing I can't accomplish, as long as I stick to it.  So here's the story on how I decided to run a marathon.  Sorry, this will be a long post.

I saw the movie (yes I watch a lot of movies!!) Hancock and fell in love with Sharlece Theron's (sp?) hair.  It's long a beautiful.  I wanted that so bad, I decided why not?  I can grow it that long.  It will take me a year and a half, but why not?? I have a tendency to get bored of something after a little while, so as I was contemplating how long it was going to be to grow my hair long, I thought, what could I do that would correspond to the same time length?  I saw someone runnning on a treadmill, totally going at it, and thinking to myself-that could never be me!!!  So a couple hours later I decided to make that my new plan--see if I could eventually run on a treadmill.  Now, if you new me, you'd probably be laughing because I don't run.  I can walk to the moon, but don't ask me to jog cause I'll end up face down on the sidewalk!!! But, I decided that running wassomething that scared me and intimidated me so that would make for the perfect challenge!! Life is meant to be challanging, to push us to our limits.  Otherwise we go nowhere and do nothing and become bored.  There's too much to do in this life to be bored!!! So aprovache la vida!! Carpe diem!!  You go girl!!! But....I am also someone who can't do just a little thing.  If I do something it's all the way or none at all.  So the more I thought about this, the more I realized that there were a lot of things that related to running.  I could run two miles~wow!!!!  Then it dawned on me- a MARATHON!  It was incredibly intimidating to me.  Very scary, something I never even thought of myself doing in my entire life!! So I quickly told my husband I was going to train for a marathon!!!  He looked at me a little puzzled for a minute then go a smile on his face and said "awseome!" 

So here I am on a Friday morning on a treadmill doing the "Couch potato to 5K" training.  It went better than I expected.  I walked for 5 minutes and then jogged for 60 sec. and walked for 90 sec. back and forth for 20 minutes.  I only had to stop once for water and catch my breath.  Seeing that I haven't been super active for a while, I was happy.  It might have been that I was just so excited that I actually got off the couch!  Yestarday was Saturday and I was at it again.  I did a lot better! No stopping.  Hooray!! Every little improvement is big to me!! 

I have a good friend who is a runner (she says she only runs 5 miles and doesn't consider herself a true runner, but I told her anyone who could run a mile without being winded is a runner to me!  She showed me how to hold my arms, how to move my hips and feet... Wow! This is a true sport!!!  She helped me to find the right shoes as well.  I am a huge shoe fan, so that was quite fun!  She made sure they were girlish for me!!! 

I am really excited.  I am going to try to write everyday after I run.  Hopefully I'll have some good progress.  My first race I'm reaching for a is a 5K in December/January.  This will be great!! I am a little apprehensive, but super excited.  I know I have great support from my husband, in his eyes I can do anything.  I just have to remember that.

So~here goes!!!