RonaLee's Intro

I have tried to start learning to run a few times, but everytime I find an "excuse" to stop. A friend of mine recently ran a marathon and he mentioned several of the other places that you do a marathon. One being the best place in the world - DISNEY!!!

I love Disney and recently had my dream vacation at WDW. I am counting the moments until we go back. I googled the participation medals for the Disney Marathons and I am in LOVE... So it looks like I have my motivation. My ultimate goal is to run a Disney marathon in 2012. I am hoping to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon in 2011. However, I know I have to be realistic. I just can't go from being fairly inactive to running a marathon. My short terms goals are to run a 5K by September and a 10K by October.

So I am beginning the Couch to 5 K program. The last time I tried the program, part of the reason I gave up was I hated looking at my watch every few moments to see if it was time to alternate between walking and running. I have downloaded a great app on my iphone that lets me play my music in a playlist and will tell be when to switch between running and walking. It is so much easier.

So last week I started the program. It went OKAY... My legs were really sore and on the third day I was unable to run the 4th or 5th run intervals, but I was able to do the last three. Part of my problem was that I was running on hills, which I was not ready for. I think I will repeat Week 1 of the Couch to 5 K program.