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Hi! I’m Amanda.

I’m a writer, chocolate chip cookie baker, blog designer, power walker, Instagram fiend, peanut butter toast lover and copious coffee drinker living in Nebraska with my husband and three cats. (also a fan of a good run-on sentence)

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Week One of Training Complete!

January 9, 2011 by Amanda R DeWitt

Hello all,

So I started on the Hal Higdon training for a 5k and I got through this week!  But since I started 2 days later, and I still had to run 3 times that week, I decided to run two days in a row…

Big Mistake
I also started back to one of my jobs the same day of my second run.  This job involves heavy lifting and at one point pushing a large cart up a steep hill…so needless to say, I was super sore on Thursday!! 

But on Saturday I did my run, exceeding the required distance by a quarter of a mile and faster than I had the other two days.
So overall this week I ran tuesday and wednesday 1.5 miles averaging 10 minute miles, then Saturday 1.75 miles, averaging 9.5 minute miles.  4.75 miles total!!  This is good for me, but I am sure regular runners are laughing at this.  Infact, I was talking to a friend and she ran that much yesterday in 30 minutes…she credits it to interval running, which I will have to try.  But really, she ran a marathon a couple of years ago, so I’m pretty sure she is just a more awesome runner than me.
But I still have 16 weeks!  This week I have to do two 2 mile runs and another 1.5 mile run. 
By the way, running on a treadmill is pretty boring..and due to the fact there is snow on the ground with temperatures below 20 degrees, I am stuck inside at the gym.  I have my ipod, but it’s weird running because the tempo of the song and the speed the treadmill is set on is different.  And there is usually just sports channels and depressing news shows on the tv…
I was looking at Nike.com because I thought they had a device to pace the running.  I found this Nike Chip Clip but I was wondering if anyone has tried it yet?  Its pretty cheap so I might just get one.  Apparently it also tracks how much you have run as well as how fast, etc.

So maybe I will buy one and let everyone know how it works!
Thanks for stopping by!

~The Semi-Health Nut

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About Amanda R DeWitt

I’m a writer, chocolate chip cookie baker, blog designer, power walker, Instagram fiend, peanut butter toast lover and copious coffee drinker living in Nebraska with my husband and three cats. (also a fan of a good run-on sentence)

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