And So It Begins...

Aside from the challenge of fundraising for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation it is dawning on, nay, looming over me that I also will have to actually run. Five. Kilometers. Which also means I will have to take this brand new, shining month to train so that I can actually feasibly run 5k.

This seems like an alarming amount of running.

Furthermore, I am going to have to be doing some serious injury-preventing yoga during all this. I did a leg workout two days ago, and already my problematic hamstrings are reminding forcibly of their limitations.

So, to make sport of this overwhelming amount of lung-shredding, leg-aching, red-faced exercise, I thought I would track my evolution as a runner.

First, the physical:

As of September 1st I weighed in at 144 lbs, with the following measurements:

Bust -35 34.25 inches
(hallucinated/dreamed up that 35...)

Waist - 28.5 inches

Hips - 35.5 inches

Thighs - 23.5 inches

The fitness:

I managed to do 24 minutes on the treadmill, running (6) 3 minutes on, 1 minute walk (4), and made it 2.5 kilometers. Oh GOD!

The Gear:

I have a pair of two year old crosstrainers, an ipod touch, all my yoga spandex and the newly acquired and entirely requisite pink running jacket.

Finally, how it feels:

some panicky lung-burning after about 16 minutes, and some really sore hamstrings. It isn't quite fun yet...

So with my pride now hanging on this rather publicly, I had better start mapping out some kind of training schedule. One that works around my LSAT course and my as-of-yet-pending job schedule.