Well, I'm officially 13% of the way through my 2011 5k challenge! It's still fun so far but getting a bit trickier to keep up my schedule. For the first six weeks of the year, we didn't see rain very often so when I felt like running it was simple to walk out the door and do it. Last week I ran in the rain for the first, and undoubtedly not the last time. If goal is made, it shouldn't be easy to achieve or else why set it in the first place? I feel a bit of suffering is in order to really gain something (besides a ravenous appetite) during this resolution.
So far I've ran two days/week, mostly running on Mondays and then again later in the week, anytime between Thursday and Saturday. I built in two "off" weeks into my resolution, 50 weeks of two runs and two weeks without runs, but I haven't been tempted to use them yet. I am hoping to save them for late in the year, when I speculate that my motivation will wane.
The dogs have been on about 10 of the runs with me so far, and I expect we'll go together about once a week now. They really enjoy getting out of the house and off-leash to play, but 5k is a bit challenging for them I think.
Time to get ready for work- happy running!
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