Week 5 of 23

Wow, week 5 already.

Last week didn't go as well as planned. I missed one day (Sunday), and a planned interval jog turned into a hill run I wasn't ready for. I've already started to slowly increase my pace as my muscles are strengthening.

In the first couple of weeks I felt pain in my calves and quads as I ran, those pains are nearly non existent and only reappear AFTER a heavy work out (not during). In the last couple of weeks the pain moved into my back, but even that is much easier as my back gets used to the exercise.

I'm losing weight like a mad man, and I'm curbing that by having regulated fun times. All in all if I can keep this up I will be near my target weight in a month and a half. That's really amazing to me. This journey started in November and I'm now only a stones throw away! Not only that I will be more cardiovascularly fit than I was BEFORE I put on the weight.

This running goal has been extremely meaningful to me and its benefit becomes more apparent as time goes by.