Team In Training

TNT . . . I love it already. I set up my fundraising site today. I've already gotten two emails from my mentor, and I just talked to her on the phone for the first time yesterday. So already, I'm loving the support I'm receiving. I'd also been in touch with one of the coaches (we bonded because we share the same last name and it's not very common) by email. Everyone is so encouraging. I love it. Don't know if I'm ready for training yet, lol, but I'm lovin' it. This is a fairly big undertaking to do alone. But I'm up for the challenge!! Tonight was our Kick-Off Celebration. I got my training schedule and a whole bunch of other stuff! After looking at that, I don't feel bad about that pizza at all (see My Fantastic Voyage). I'm so excited and I want to talk about so much stuff. Let's see...

Shoes. So our first run is this Saturday, but our shoe clinic isn't until next Saturday. Well, since I'm not a runner, I need my shoes before this weekend. So I'm going to go to Fleet Feet. Three people at the Kick Off recommended it, and I love what I see on the website. I'm prepared to spend an amount of money I've never spent on athletic shoes before. I'm going to get my heart-rate monitor watch at the same time. May as well.


Training. Ok, so I found out how training will go. We start out with 3 miles this Saturday. I'm going to to because until I can figure out a way to run on Sundays instead, I can't afford to miss these trainings. I'm still going to go to Bible class, and I'm just going to pray really really hard that there is someone who can run with me on Sundays. I'm going to see if my manfriend will run with me. I won't run the whole 3 miles, I'll start out trying to run for 5 minutes and then walk for 3. This is why I want to have my HR monitor/watch before Saturday; I want to be able to set it to go off so I know when to walk and when to run. I also want to see if my heart rate is too high or low while I'm running so I know if I need to cut back or step it up. I'm nervous because I know I haven't been exercising like I should and it's gonna show come Saturday. But oh well, I'll just have to stay on schedule. I'm going to post it on my refrigerator. NO EXCUSES. I think I'm just going to knock it out every morning.

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