Mel's Box of Chocolates

Obviously these weekly targeted posts are not my strong point. Thankfully I have been sticking with the running part, well all except for last week when I took a break...from pretty much everything! I didn't run, only completed myfitnesspal once, avoided school work, ignored the sink full of dishes, stepped over the toys and junk...yep. I took a break. But, that break was just what I needed. Yesterday I jumped on the treadmill and completed four miles. The longest I've run in quite awhile...years actually.  I really have enjoyed getting back to running. I feel better. Stronger. Love the twitching in my legs when I'm finished! I'm currently working on Week 5 of the program.  This week entails 4, 9-min runs with a 1min walk in between each and a 5min warm up and cool down so about a 49 minute workout all together.  I've been using my Nike+ to record some of my run data and I'm running a 5K on the treadmill in about 38 minutes.  I'd love to get that ...

  I'm still running. Yesterday, I started week 2 of my running program after doing week 1 for two weeks just to make sure I didn't overdo it to start. Week 2 consists of five, 4 minute runs with a 1 minute walk in between each of the runs. Of course there is still the 5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down as well so it's a 35 minute workout. To be honest, I was a little worried about running for four minutes straight. I'm not really sure why. I was running 5K's without walking at one point so four minutes shouldn't have intimidated me. I realize it is only one more measly minute, but considering that I was sweatin' the timer for 3 minutes I couldn't imagine tacking on another for each run. But, I DID IT! I ran all five of the 4 minute runs! I'm averaging about 11 min per mile and yesterday I finished 2.5miles. I really would like to try to get to around 10 minute miles, but don't know what to focus on first. When I trained for 5K...