almost at my first short term goal

I wasn't going to run outside today, but then my parents returned from their walk and said that it was beautiful. I had just enough daylight left, so I went for it. I try to run outside whenever possible, because let's face it, no one runs a marathon on a treadmill.

I could have gotten to my first real goal tonight. That goal is to run for 30 minutes without stopping. I can definitely do 30 minutes - probably more - but the "without stopping" part is the stumbling block. And I could have done it tonight, but right around 28 minutes, my legs started to hurt. I decided to slow down before I injured myself. If I had a job where I sat around all day, that would be one thing, but I am generally on my feet, which would just exacerbate anything bad that I did to my legs during a workout. So I cooled it.

I'm happy about coming this far in such a short amount of time. I'll probably have to start all over when I get back from traveling this summer, but I am seeing that it is taking me less time to build up stamina than it probably did in the past. I think I could definitely do at least a 5K in the fall.

Once I hit the 30-minute mark, I'll start going for 5K distance. Which means I'm going to have to lengthen my workout a bit.