My Very First 5K!

Photo from my Instagram (@thelizdiaries)

On Saturday I completed my very first 5k race. 

This guy right here (Jason, my boss) stuck with me the entire time. My heart sank when I came upon the first hill in the race. I had not been training for any hills and I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me that I should, so when I stopped to walk up that hill I told Jason he should keep running without me. He is, after all, a seasoned runner who does marathons and Iron Man races, but he said no because he got me into this mess. He stayed just a little ahead of me and stopped when I needed to stop and kept motivating me and telling me stories about running during the whole race. :) 

I didn't run the whole thing, but I did my best and ran as much as I could and I completed it. I believe I finished at about 48 minutes, but hey for a person that has never done running in her life I'd say that's pretty good especially considering there were hills. 

I'm starting to believe I can do ANYTHING.

Until next time!

-Liz

Preparing For My Very First 5K

I'm supposed to be training for a 5K race so that afterwards I can train for a half marathon (yikes) and on Saturday I ran for a minute then walked for a minute and so on for a whole 50 minutes! I know that that may be no big deal to some people, but just try being the fatty doing it at the gym with a Barbie doll running on the treadmill next to you and a Skipper doll running on the treadmill on the other side of you. Mmmmhmm! Still, I feel like I'm making progress and that's all that counts right?

Until next time!

-Liz