A new milestone!

• Ran 6 miles (almost 10 km)
• Total time to complete: 1 hr. 15 min.

This run was really really hard. For the first time, my chest and abdomen was hurting a bit from trying to breathe. I don't know why it was so hard breathing today. I sucked at running. I really had to force myself to keep going. Even during my last 0.5 mile, I was considering walking the rest or quitting but then I had to talk myself out of it because it would just be stupid to stop running with only 0.5 mile to go. Man, was it hard running. I'm totally in shock right now. I'm elated that I accomplished this but it was at a cost. My mind is full of thoughts like "This is only half of a half marathon. How in the world am I going to finish on race day!" I guess I should counteract these thoughts with "Look how far I've come!" At least I know that at this time to complete almost half the half marathon that I'll come in around my time goal which is 2 hr. 30 min. I might try and increase my speed a little during the last couple months of training in order to ensure I come in at 2 hr. 30 min. Oh and if you're wondering what I did to beat the boredom since the laptop I use on the treadmill is broken, I downloaded some Podcasts (i.e. one about The Office, and some brain strengthening exercise thing). Maybe this is why it was hard to run today; it was a change in my distraction. Well, we'll see how I do during next week's long run. Mind you on Tue. and Thur., it will seem like a long run anyways because I think I do 5 miles now on those days. Sigh.

Week 5, Thursday

• Ran 4 miles
• Total time to complete: approx. 49 min. 30 sec.
• Laptop isn't working anymore. I don't know what I'm going to do while running now!
  

Week 5, Wednesday

• Today I ran 2 miles straight at 5.2 miles/hour.
• Time to complete: 23 min.
• It was a little tiring but not bad altogether.
  

My 8km Milestone!

• Total time to complete: 1 hour, 2 min.
• Treadmill speed: 5 miles/hour; 3 miles/hr walking
• Run 10 min., Walk 1 min. cycles
• It felt GREAT!!!!! It was a little bit hard getting into the first couple miles but afterwards I got into the groove and it was easy peasey!
  

Training Update

Some of you may be wondering why I haven't posted anything about running lately. It's because I've decided not to do it. It was taking up so much of my time and I was going to bed so late in order to stick to the training schedule.

Just kidding. I am still training for the half marathon. The only reason why I haven't posted is because I haven't been running this week. I was so sore over the weekend that it was better for me to take a few days off than to force myself to run risking further injury.

I'm planning on strapping on my running shoes again this weekend though. I need to do my first 5 mile run which is 8km which is the same distance as running along the canal. What a milestone that will be for me!

I don't know how much I'll struggle getting back into it though because I've eaten a lot of Easter candy (from work) and cookies (at Barb's) these last couple of days. Yikes!

Week 3, Sunday

• I was supposed to run 5 miles today but my body hurt from volleyball yesterday, my abdomen is hurting (I think I have a bladder infection), plus I slipped on the ice just before running. So I only ran 3.5 miles in just over 46 min. My shins were starting to really ache so I figure I should stop instead of pushing myself the whole 5 miles. I didn't want to make things worse.
  

Week 3, Saturday

• I played in a volleyball tournament.
  

Food Court Musical

People should bust out into song more often!