I knew it was a little harder to run outside but Saturday I ran outside for the first time since I have been able to run again. I had yet to be sore running on a treadmill. Today my calves are really sore and my ankle is stiff. I've have got to be careful and make sure I am running outside more than on a treadmill. I'm afraid if I continue to run on a treadmill, I will then go out and run 3 miles and not be able to walk for a week. With the humidity down this coming week, I will get outside all week and see what happens.
I really want to get out and run longer. I just received my new copy of Runner's World and I get fired up by the time I finish reading it. I have a 5k race coming up in August, hopefully I will be ready for that when it comes around. I want to run a half marathon so as soon as I am able to run around 12 miles a week for 3 weeks I plan on finding a half marathon to run.
I found a great website that lists half marathons in the US. halfmarathons.net is great, it breaks the races down by states and months. I plan on finding a race that is 12 weeks out once I hit my weekly mileage of 12. I found several websites with training guides for the races and I finally found one that should work for me. It is designed to finish the race and not break a time. I think you must finish one first and then work on times. It doesn't have as many speed runs, mainly just mileage.
And just so you know, I ran 2.3 miles last week. Here's to increasing that.
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