Chugging along! I've exercised 8 of the last 10 days. Prior to that, in the month of January I'd only deliberately exercised 3 times (in 18 days)... the current ratio is much more likely to get me to 1/2 marathon shape for March 10. In addition to working out, I'm also diligently stretching. I would like to recommend the Nike+ App for this - I do 15 minutes of stretch, either the Shawn Johnson full body stretch or the <insert famous runner's name here> running stretch. Both are excellent and I find that I'm much less sore after running and much more comfortable while running (goodbye sore knees and ankles!!)
This weekend I ran Friday night (yep, I'm cool), Saturday mid-day and then Sunday morning. Saturday's workout was terrible. I kept having to slow down the treadmill........ wait, treadmill?! yes... sidenote, did I mention I joined a gym? I found a Groupon for a gym back in August and I joined in November for 6 months, but didn't actually attend until this month. Thank goodness I joined a gym - there was a few centimeters of snow covering everything for a little over two weeks. While in most cities this wouldn't be a problem after a day, in Amsterdam nobody does any shoveling, so the snow just stays until it melts, making it very difficult to run outside.
anyway, Saturday was a terrible run on the treadmill, but Sunday more than made up for it. I've figured out how to watch TV on my iPad, so I'm watching Glee and speeding up during songs. I ran 5 miles at a 11 minute pace, but most importantly, I didn't have to slow down at all. That's progress :)
Thanks for reading,
Liz
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