Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Well there she is folks, my very own (very used) treadmill. She may not look like much given that she's about 20 years old but she works! I don't know why she is a she. I think a name is in order. Any ideas??
In any case this is my parents old treadmill. My brother and dad used it many moons ago to get ready for Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. It's old and makes funny noises but until I can afford my own it will more than do the job and I am eternally grateful for it. Although thinking about it I'm pretty sure my mom was more excited about the prospect of getting it out of her basement so I'm not sure who made out better...
Now that I have the right equipment I have officially started training! I kinda decided to just go for it instead of waiting. I have a friend from my my choir days long ago who is kicking butt and taking name with her running! She sent me an incredible note of encouragement this past weekend and is running the Princess this year, so I thought what the heck! Let's get this party started! For those of you who don't know, I'm going to be using the Galloway Run/Walk/Run method. It seems like a perfect fit for me and my old people joints. Jeff Galloway does the "official" training for all the runDisney events and he has an 8 week conditioning that you can do before you start the actual training routine so that's what I'm doing! The first installment was last night, didn't go to bad and I'm so excited to actually be starting!
The plan right now is do the 8 week conditioning and then jump into the 22-week training plan and do it twice before next years race. By Feb 2014 I should have 13.1 miles down pat. I also want to run at least the 10K in this year's 5/3 River Bank Run with my cousin so this is actually happening. We are going to do this people!! Any advice. thoughts, etc would be greatly appreciated!
And the adventure continues!
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