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At the end of August I decided to sign up for a 10k benefit race. My fiancé convinced me that I’d be fine, and it would be a fun thing to do. My first mistake was believing her! After signing away my life, I decided to give myself a little endurance test to see how bad things were going to be. I quickly learned that things were going to be bad… very bad, actually. I could barely get around the block twice before I nearly keeled over and died.
My second week of training has nothing special to report. I was only able to run outside once because of the rain all week, so here are the RunKeeper results.
I’m now able to run 3 laps no problem. While I’m still really far away from the goal of 6.2 miles, or just about 12-13 laps, I am making progress. I have 7 weeks to go. If I increase one lap a week I’ll be up to 10 laps. Considering the runner, that would just be absolutely amazing.
Well, I’m through my first week of training for the 10k and I’m still wondering what I was thinking when I signed up. Things are starting to improve in my running, but overall, it’s still incredibly bad…
I don’t know what I was thinking when I agreed to this, but I’m signed up to run in a 10k. The race, Run The Bridge, is on November 1st and costs $25 if you sign up now. Signing up for this is only ridiculous because I’m not a runner by any means. My running capability extends to 45 mins of jogging on an elliptical. So how do I plan on surviving this?
Hopefully, I’ll survive by learning from other people and properly preparing. In order to figure out where I stood, I had to go for my first run outside.
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