Born to Run?

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone and everyone who, for whatever reason be it accident or on purpose, has come to stumble across this blog.  I wish you all the best and I hope you eat your fill, if that be your tradition.

Today has already been an atypical holiday for me.  Weather pattern aside (gorgeous, by the way) I have already broken away from my traditional “sit around on the couch and watch the parade/ football game” activities.  This morning, I ran my first 5k race.  It was my goal for the end of CTI to be able to run it non-stop.  To me, someone who really never ran anywhere for any length of time until the end of September, this seemed like an attainable, but challenging goal.  So, let me officially say “done and done.”  I ran the race, grabbed an orange, and then found myself crossing into the boundaries of Push-Up City (the only city I know of with roving boundary lines…).  My official results haven’t been posted, but I estimate I ran it in about 33 minutes or so.***  All in all, there will definitely be less guilt on my part about feasting today.

In other fitness news, I never posted about the second of four Baseline tests we took earlier this week.  To recap, this is the push-up, sit-up, and 1.5 mile run.  The new numbers: 50 push-ups (up from 33), 64 sit-ups (up from 48), and 13:14 run (loss of about 40 seconds).  All in all, I am satisfied in the progress for three weeks work.  Now the goal is to keep pushing myself throughout the next year. 

Enjoy your turkey!   

***I just checked my official results.  Coming in 896th place for the 5k, my time was 31:10.4.  That means I averaged a 10:03 mile.  Better than I thought!