The treadmill...I'm happy to say it's been getting a workout lately because that means that I've been able to get my butt out of bed and get a workout myself. A few weeks ago I got a wild hair and decided to start a running program. I happened upon an article on WikiHow called "How to Begin Running"...sounds simple enough doesn't it...why does their need to be an article about it right? Well, in that article there was an 9-week schedule for gradually working up to running. The first week said something like this:
Week 1: Brisk five-minute warm-up walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
I'm happy to say that I'm now on Week 3. The most difficult thing for me seems to be bumping the treadmill speed up and down at all those time intervals. Truth be told, I'm afraid to start running outside. I think I'm afraid it will be more difficult and, since I'm able to keep it up on the treadmill, I'm afraid to move it outdoors. But, I'm going to try. One side of me thinks that it's GOT TO BE EASIER to just start running rather than ramping up the treadmill all the time. When my time is up for that segment of running I can just start walking again.
So, I've decided that tomorrow is the day...tomorrow is when I'm going to give running outdoors a try.
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