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Started jogging

Week of 9/3/2012 - 9/9/2012

Exercise Walking - 5.95 miles
Exercise Jogging - 1 session - 5 - 1 minute intervals
General Walking -  33.66 miles
Stationary Bike -  1 session - 3 minutes
Weight loss - ??

Yippee.....I jogged last week.  It was only 5 - 1 minute intervals, but that is better than nothing.  Originally when I thought I would start running, I thought I would need to do shorter intervals.  But when I started jogging, I thought I could do a bit longer but didn't want to overdo it.  I was a bit sore afterwards but it didn't prevent me from doing anything.  I'm sure people thought I was crazy when they saw me because I was so happy and shocked at the same time.

Otherwise last week was still a tough week because we had visitors from Thursday - Monday so that threw off our plans a bit.  Not an excuse just a fact.

I found the box that had the scale in it so I weighed myself yesterday and there was a weight gain but not as high as I thought it would be after being in the road and living in a hotel and unable to do any cooking.

As I mentioned last time, my fitbit is broken and it now looks like it won't hold a charge at all.  I just don't think it's a good idea to spend money to buy a new one since I have other ways of recording my workout time.  The only bad thing is that I use the fitbit to record my general walking so without another pedometer I won't be able to do that but that is not that big a deal.  I really did that to see make sure I was getting good walks in after my surgery but now that I've returned to regular workouts I don't think that is as important.

Guess there is no holding back now.  I'll work on updating my training plan and will start to increase the number of intervals as well as the amount of jogging time.  It will continue to be a slow process but now I know I can jog without pain and I'm so excited about that!






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