I can do it, I can do it

I have putting off blogging about this because I was afraid I would quit again.  As of tonight I have completed week 6 of the couch to 5k.  I started this last Spring but for whatever reason I quit.  I wasn't that it was too hard,  life just got in the way.  This was before Cameron got his tubes, we just put our house on the market, and I was helping a friend out by watching her little girl after school one or two days week.  I just gave up.

I still had my goal; I would run a 5k one day.   A couple months ago I read Grass Stain's blog about The Color Run.  It sounded awesome.  I texted the info to Alicia, I knew if anyone could get things done it would be her, and before night's end she had a team set up.  I thought if I ever run one, this would be it.  I signed up and had every intention of getting started right away.  I will be darn if it wasn't almost another month before I started training again.  Since I had previously did the first two weeks I started at week 3.  It's an 8 week program designed to build you up to running 30 minutes without stopping, running 3 times a week.  I don't think I can run 3.1 miles in under 30 minutes so I've been trying to run 4 times a week, finish the program and add a minute or two here and there so I'm running about 35 minutes non stop.  

I finished up week 6 tonight which was 20 minutes non-stop.  The past three runs leading up to this have been a total of 18 minutes but I've walked a minute or two in between.  The longest non-stop running was 12 minutes.  I had been dreading this all day.  Once the kids were in bed, I was off.  Steve has an app called imapmyrun.  It calculates your distance, pace per mile, calories, etc.  I took his phone to check out my distance, I ran 1.7 miles at a pace of 11.54/mile.  I have to keep telling myself; a 7 minute mile or an 11 minute mile, is still a mile. 

Call me crazy, but I've already found an app that gets you from a 5k to a 10k.  Once I complete this, I'm all on it.