I did it!!

On Saturday night, I registered for my first 5k on December 18. Wow, it seems like a dream... A week before Christmas??? !!! Am I nuts? Maybe.  I think I'm going to be very nervous on race day and the days leading up to it. I'm really glad my friend Karen will be running with me or I don't know if I would be brave enough.  I have started to add some speed intervals to my runs as I heard that helps with speed and I am STILL trying to get through the whole 3 without walking, though I am very close. Walking breaks are now only 15-30 seconds... After this race I think I might just set my sights on a half marathon. I LOVE running long distances!  There is a lot of training involved with that so we will see. And I am going to be increasing runs to 2 times per day a couple days a week, Lord willing.  I did a strength training class at the gym this morning.. FINALLY! I have been working out with the machines for 3 weeks, but free weights are just a little different. What probably would have been a very hard class a few months ago was fairly easy and I made it through 90 percent with only a couple stops. And the best news of all is that the scale has started moving again and I now weigh less than I did before I had children. Wahoo!!  And I have never felt better in my life. I am so thankful.  Well, bye bye blog. Off to work.