Running in Circles

I LOVE to exercise.  It makes me feel better about eating tortilla chips, Girl Scout cookies, and drinking a bottle of wine on the weekends.  I have to say that I am an elliptical girl.  It doesn't require too much coordination, and I can read a magazine, drink water, and listen to music all at the same time.  The one thing I am not...is a runner.  I despise running.  I don't like the way it makes my lungs feel like they are inside a 90 year old woman, or the fact that I can run 4 miles one day and barely a quarter mile the next day.  With that said, my mom decided she wanted to become a runner back in August.  I decided to do my daughterly duty and join her on her mini runs.  We started out with intervals of running 1 minute and walking 5 minutes around the neighborhood and SLOWLY built up to running 5 minutes and walking 1 minute.  Seven months later, my mom and I are both able to run continuously for 30 to 40 minutes, and she talked me into signing up for a 5k race in April.  (Her first race and my second).  Don't be fooled...I still despise running, but I sure do like the number on my scale each morning.

My first 5k - June 2010