Okay, now I know this is for real.  Check this out:  This morning on the treadmill, I ran for 21 straight minutes!  Unbelievable!  Crazy stuff going on here!  And the really amazing part is that I’m not sore or tired.  I feel invigorated!  Although as soon as I dropped to a walk after the 21 minutes, I started walking crooked for a second.  Not sure what that was all about!  Probably delirious excitement.  It translated to 1.75 miles.  WOW!

You know what that means, don’t you?  I should be able to be totally trained and ready to run the entire 5k by July 26th!  Perhaps even sooner.  I think I will focus my efforts on the mileage for now and actually being able to run 3.1 miles.  Once I can do that, I will see about increasing my speed.  I mean, surely I can run the mile faster than 12 minutes!  (Um and there just might be a small but very competitive part of me that wants to finish in the top of the pack….)

Can you tell I’m more than a little amped about this? 

Just a side note about stinkin’ thinking.  When I’m running, I have lots of time to think.  Well, I was imagining telling the people in my family that I am signed up for this 5k and how excited and proud I am about it.  What is the very next thought that pops into my head?  Well, they’re going to think that 3.1 miles isn’t very much.  THE NERVE!!!!!  I was tempted to smack myself for even thinking that crap!!  I just had to share that madness because THAT is the kind of thinking that got me fat.