What's in a mile...

Well apparently when you run slow there are about 2000 or so steps in a mile. And when you recently wrote a post about how slow you run, how you can barely run 10 seconds let alone ten minutes, a mile is a whole lot to celebrate.

As you know, last year I had hoped to run a 5K, but was sidelined many times with asthma flares and knee issues. When I started my journey last year I could only run for 5 to 10 second intervals. I got up to minute intervals fairly quickly, although it was a struggle to push past the five and ten minute marks. At the time of my last and worst flare, I was able to run about a mile to a mile and a half in about 30 minutes. Like I said, I run slow.

When I started walking and then running again about a month ago, I thought I would be able to hit that 10 minute stride right off the bat. WRONG! Those first couple of runs were more walks than runs, but eventually I got to the point where I was running a half mile consistently.

Well that was last week, this week I decided I would try to push a little harder and farther and low and behold I am running a mile. Woooo Whooo I ran a mile! And I have been running between a half mile and a mile all week with the past two runs being a mile or a little more. So maybe my hopes of running a 5K are not out the window.