Monday 2/21/2011 to Saturday 2/27/2011

Let's start tracking my progress. I run exclusively on the treadmill at home. I am in Week 4 of my "Couch potato to 5K" training regiment. This training program actually only has me train 3 days a week, but I am doing my "own thing" on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For now, I'm going to try to run on those days, but I may throw in Insanity's Cardio Max workout a time or two. Week 4's training is:

• 5 Minute Walk (warm up)
• 3 Minute Run, 90 second walk
• 5 Minute Run, 2 1/2 minute walk
• 3 Minute Run, 90 second walk
• 5 Minute Run

-Monday - 1.86 Miles (didn't quite finish the last 5 minute run)
-Tuesday - 1.50 Miles
-Wednesday - 2.05 Miles
-Friday - 2.25 Miles

TOTAL MILES: 7.66 Miles

Update: Tonight I was able to run entire 16 minutes of my training. This may seem like a trivial accomplishment, but the reality is that when I got to the 2nd 3 minute, I was really struggling to keep going...and I was almost completely convinced I wouldn't be able to run that last 5 minute block.  I quickly thumbed the forward arrow on my iPod (set to random shuffle) looking for anything with a beat. I hit like 7 crappy songs in a row before finally hitting something I could run to. And...I MADE IT!!! those last 5 minutes are a big deal. It was a mental accomplishment as much as a physical feat of endurance.

This is the first week I have done all 3 training sessions for my running program. It was really difficult to want to keep trying to exercise this week, but I did it.