still truckin....

on a side note,  where did that phrase just truckin come from?  but I digress.  So I am still running, however I am not as fast as I thought I was.  I was using my Itouch with the runkeeper app.  Well this is fine provided I get a continuous GPS signal.  this only happens when it picks up WIFI hot-spots.  so if there is not one I lose signal and it does not map correctly.  (While in FL I ran a route that lost GPS signal for a good amount of time and when it did pick up by the end of my run it said I ran 5 miles in 30 min and had a 6 min mile average...I WISH.)   It is close, but not exactly accurate on my route.  My type A personality needs it to be exact and perfect so I used that as an excuse to get a brand new nifty android phone.  so here is what I actually am running   3miles in 31 min.  my average pace is 11 min per mile but that is including my warm up and cool down. Still pretty awesome if you ask me.  So I` have decided to start fresh with the pretrain schedule since I am actually running 3 miles now.  I will be doing thi for the next five weeks.  MY goal in the next five weeks is to shorten the time I run 3 miles.  I would like it done in less than 30 min and I think that is pretty achievable.

staying steady....

I am consistent with running.  I am on my third week of running 5 days a week.  MY schedule is 3 miles Mon-Wed., Thu off, Fri-2 miles, Sat 3 miles, Sun off.   I feel great and look forward to every single run.  I run 3 miles in about 27-28 minutes.  My legs are getting used to this and I am developing mild shin splints to I am now treating every day after running with ice.  They are not extremely painful but annoying.  I am going to invest in some new running shoes soon, which should help.  this schedule will continue for two more weeks and then we move on to the 5k training schedule where there will be days I run 4 miles.....It is starting to not look impossible but something I will look forward to.  I will look forward to every couple months finding a 5k race to run in  :)