I ran on the treadmill Tues. and today, 40 minutes each time. Tues. I did 3.64 miles in that time (including some walking), and today I did 3.78 miles (no walking). I am working on getting faster, but it is so hard. My time for 3.1 miles (a 5K) was 31:18 today, and my DH said that a time that slow is not even listed in his heart rate training book as a possible 5K time. Sheesh....way to discourage a beginning runner! Admittedly, I did start out slowly warming up, which I would have probably already done before starting out on a 5K, so I might be slightly faster at an actual event, but throw in the hills and I might be even slower!

But whatever the book says about my time, I'm feeling better than ever when I run (no pain anywhere!) and am improving over my speeds from just a month ago, so I try not to be too hard on myself. I'll never be a speed demon, but I'd like to run a 5K one of these days. It just needs to be a large enough event that I won't come in dead last.

Emily