3 miles and counting

Whew! I finally completed a 3 mile run/jog (can't fully call it a run since I did jog at a pace of 4.3 mph for about 12 minutes). But hey, I did it! I can remember being jealous of people in high school, ok it started in middle school, who could run. Why didn't I just think about training so that I could be able to run. Oh, that's right I was too busy smoking cigarettes and not running. Even last year when I went out to the Tobacco Trail I would see people running and I wish that I could do that. So when I began exercising in August 2011, I did a light run and was proud of myself to make it through a Britney Spears song. Yes, I said Britney. But I wasn't consistent and kind of gave up on running and went to the elliptical. A friend of mine introduced me to the couch to 5k app. It started out slow and has increased over the weeks. I have been stuck on week 7, 25 minutes of running. Yesterday however I decided to just try it after reading a blog about a young lady who weighed 349 lbs and was doing the couch to 5k and lost a bit of weight. She said that she was stuck on week 7 as well but she did a 5k anyways in 59 minutes. I HAD to try and I accomplished. It felt GREAT to do something that I didn't think that I could ever do.