5 Minutes

For the past year my cardio workouts have been primarily on the elliptical machine. Crank up my ipod, hit the machine and I'm good for 45 minutes of heart-pounding cardio. In the past couple months I've started mixing cardio up a little to give my body a change. I've started adding in the treadmill. Boring...well, I always thought so. I have a difficult time walking nowhere for 45 minutes. I decided to start doing some walk/jog intervals. In the past 15 years I have not jogged unless I was being chased...and quite honestly I don't remember being chased. One day I got up the courage to crank up the treadmill and see if I could jog. I think I made it 30 seconds. Hey! Better than nothing, right? Then I worked up to a minute...then two....one day I did 3 minutes and thought I might die, but it felt great! Today I put a favorite song on and started jogging...I wanted to make it 3 minutes. I got there and told myself I could do more. So...I jogged for 5 minutes! That's huge for me. I know it may not seem like much to many of you, but don't forget, a year ago I was 100+ pounds heavier and I'm still no skinny mini. But I am getting healthy and active and I JOGGED! One of my goals is to complete a 5k sometime in the next year. I'm not sure when I'll do it....but I WILL DO IT!

Must sleep now. The hubster is stuck working tomorrow so I'll be chasing two wild and crazy toddlers around all day.