One Week Down

Well I am back at it. I took the weekend off from running. However, I did get some exercise in, so it was not a total waste. On Saturday, Ashley and I went swimming with our close friends the Hendersons. While swimming I realized that my shoulder that I had surgically repaired was much weaker than I thought it was. It is going to require more time and effort in the weight room and pool, but I will not let that get me down. Then last night I played softball. We lost but it was close, and Ashley got her first hit of the season so good for her.

Today made a week since I started running. Ashley went again with me today she did really good adding a tenth of mile onto her run. She is really putting in some good effort. I ran the two miles I have been running for the past few days. I made really good time today. I have knocked my time down a whole twenty minutes from the first time I ran two miles on Thursday. I looked down at my time at my first mile which was 11 minutes and 50 seconds. I felt like the second half of the run was slower, but somewhere along the path I picked up some time because I finished in 23 minutes and 7 seconds. That surprised me because most of the second half is up hill. There were not to many people out on the trails today, but everyone was smiling and really friendly.

Looking ahead I may lift weights tomorrow, and run again on Wednesday. Each day that passes I am getting more and more motivated, and before to much longer I am going to be running 10 miles a day.