8k on my first day out

Hi Everyone!

Today I finally (finally) went for my first run. I'm visiting Lori in Vancouver and we headed to her gym. To be perfectly honest, I probably wouldn't have gone running without the peer pressure, but I did and it was awesome.

I'm not really a treadmill kind of girl... or so I thought! But it's really amazing to have a machine tell you exactly how fast and far you're running, and how high your heart rate is. And you can adjust your running speed at the incline at which you're running. So I got going on the treadmill and I was amazed at my results... I did a 10 minute warm-up speed-walk (at a rate of 4 mph), then ran for 40 minutes (at a rate of 5.3 mph), then did a cool-down speed-walk for 10 mins, then another 5 mins of slow walking. So a total of 65 minutes of moving, and 5.0 miles, which translates to 8.0 kms! YAY!

I didn't have my iPod so I spent most of the time multiplying the accumulating miles by 1.6 in order to figure out how many kms I had run.

Can't wait to go again tomorrow!

:) Sarah oxoxo