joggernaut

I know you have been wondering about two things. 1) What am I doing for aerobic exercise, am I still working out with denise? 2) What are the fractions at the bottom of my posts about.

Well today you shall be informed.

I have been walking/jogging 3x a week for the past 2.5 weeks. I wasn't sure it was going to be part of my lifestyle for long so I wasn't going to write about it until I was sure. Well I guess I am sure. I started out doing 1.5 miles(the distance between my house and the mennonite reception center & back). Every Saturday I have increased my distance. I am now up to 2.5 miles and I am shooting for 3 miles by next week.

I also started out jogging until i needed to walk and then catching my breath and jogging some more. I have been keeping track of this via telephone poles. So the fractions at the bottom of my page are how many telephone poles I jogged vs. the total telephone poles I jogged/walked. So Today I jogged 48 out of the 52 telephone poles. (in 32 minutes).

Currently I am averaging about a 13 minute mile. That seems awful, but I know it is my best for now. I do know that in High School I couldn't run a 15 minute mile and now I can jog/walk two 13 minute miles. Once I don't walk any telephone poles my time should pick up.

Also currently I run south on Prescott to Jackson and run most of the length of Jackson and then I turn around and come back. Soon however I will be able to run a country block. The shortest country block we have is 3.5 miles. I think I could do this now but I am trying not to push it. So I will give myself another 2 weeks to build up to my country block.

Anyway and now for my goal. I want to run in a 5k race/fun run. Something I never thought i would do. But now I can see it as part of my future. I am thinking about doing the Balloon Chaser's 5K in Hershey. I wouldn't mind finding someone to run with, but if I have to go it alone I will.

48/52 32m