Running

Last Saturday morning I met with a group of ladies to go running. I've never been a runner. I'm not sure if I will ever be a true runner. I have realized that in this day and age one has to incorporate some sort of exercise into their daily routine. Yes, daily. I looked at some gyms again. But I would never utilize a gym to it's fullest potential because I would only go to classes. I need some one yelling at me telling me what to do. I won't just go on my own to chill out and lift weights or run on the treadmill. I don't know. I'm weird. I'd much rather be outside hiking or something but the weather is crappy and going hiking isn't as easy to do daily. Before I got pregnant with Camille I was getting up early and doing pilates. But we've gotten new sofas and now I don't have enough space to actually do anything like that. So I figured I'd run. Izak and I were trying to go in the evenings after work, with the girls. But I was worried about them getting sick. Plus Beatrice just wants to get out and walk too. It's way to easy to skip a day in the evening, something always comes up. So I used Saturday as my jumping off point to start running at the butt crack of dawn. Just in my neighborhood. Not very far, but still a challenge to this non-runner. I've been running with my pit bull, Ruggers (Izak insisted for my protection.) But he actually keeps my pace up and that's good. Slowly but surely I'm going to build up to being able to run inside my neigborhood within 30 min. heck maybe I'll get to the point where I can run it twice or more?? We'll see. I'm starting out slow but still pushing myself. I may run another 5k in April and then there is a 1/2 marathon a couple months after that... we'll see.