Week 8: Runs 24-26

 Somewhere I didn't count my runs right, but I checked my activity on Runkeeper and I'm about to move on to run 27. I can't believe I've been running for 8 weeks and almost 30 runs! Eight weeks ago I was struggling to run 1 minute, now I'm running for 10 minutes straight! I feel great!

Today we went to Dick Pond Athletics, our local mom & pop running store. They evaluated Terry and found out he is an overpronator (to learn more about overpronation, check out this article on Runner's World). Terry's been experiencing some pain in his ankle when running, so it was recommended that he visit a running store to get evaluated for the right shoes. Better to find out now before he injures himself. Needless to say, he did get new shoes. We went running and he didn't have any problems or pain. YAY!

Since we were at the store, figured I might as well make sure I have the right shoes too. And I do, I'm neutral.

This week I had to go downtown for training for work, so I got to walk downtown for two days. The second day we got out a little early, so I was able to do a little touring (been awhile since I did the tourist thing downtown). I visited the Bean and Buckingham Fountain....it was a nice 2+ mile walk.

This week's runs went well. I started out the week with 20 minutes of running, no walking (although I did walk, and didn't run the full 20 minutes. I ended up running 18 minutes); next run was 18 minutes of running (run 5, walk 3, run 8, walk 3, run 5) - which I did without any troubles; today's run was 10 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 10 minutes running...and I did it! and it felt great! I'm running for 10 minutes straight! The next run, 20 minutes of running no walking, outside of warm up and cool down. Then the amount of time running just increases from there. I can't wait! Three weeks away from my 5K goal! (since i repeated a few weeks.)