Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Friday, April 23, 2004

I am going to try something and at first I wasn't sure if I should post it here or not. It has nothing to do with writing or creativity or art. It is a goal that I am setting for myself and I am going to try my hardest to accomplish it.

The reason I wasn't sure about posting it here is that I don't want to set my self up and then feel bad if I fail. Then I thought it might be a good idea to post here as an incentive not to fail. Kind of making myself accountable by putting it out there.

I want to be able to run 3 miles (with out stopping or walking in between) and I am starting a 10 week training program next week. I have never been a runner and I always say I can't run. I want to prove that I can.

I actually started working on this a week ago and during my walks I would run for a bit then walk and then run some more and walk again when I need to. The last time I did this I ran a total of 1.2 miles out of 3. I decided this was something I wanted to accomplish, and I thought maybe I should look into training for running a little more.

Runner's World provided some great info and even showed me that I was on the right track. I was doing some things right. When starting out running, you should do the part walk part run and you should establish a walking routine first so your legs start getting prepared for running. The thing I was doing wrong was counting miles. In the beginning I should be more concerned with time instead of distance.

Since I have already established the base by walking an average of 5 days a week for about 3 miles each time, I can start week one of the running program on Monday. So, there it is. The goal is set. In ten weeks I hope to run for 30 minutes straight. If I can do that I can run 3 miles.

posted by Kelly @ 4/23/2004 09:12:00 AM

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