Had to hit the ibuprofen this morning. My right leg is a little tender from the running. I haven't gone back through but the last time i did any regular running I had the same issue. Just need to get the muscles used to the running again. did some extra stretching today just to help out. I should still be on schedule for 2 miles tomorrow. The protein shake stuff goes better with rice milk than water. Almost a little too sweet though. Leg feels better right now but it might just be the ibuprofen.

Just did a mile today. I didn't want to start the week out by pushing too hard. I'll do 1.5 tomorrow and hopefully 2 wed-thurs. That's the current plan at least. We'll see how it holds up.

Wow, did it. 2 miles today, I'll probably pay for it later but for now it feels pretty good.

having the smoothie before the run is a bad, bad idea. I need to come up with a good way to do the morning food thing. Did make it 1.5 miles though. I may try for 2 tomorrow. Not sure if I'm ready or not though. I'm pretty bushed after 1.5 right now.

Guess I only had 1 mile in me this morning. Maybe I just stayed up too late last night. Either way I only went one mile. I'll have to do better tomorrow.

pushed myself to 1.5 miles this morning. Mostly because it took me 15 minutes to start running. I need to get over the mental part of this. by the half mile mark I was in my stride and probably could have gone for 3. Oh well.

Got new shoes this weekend. Could definitely tell a difference on the run. Still pretty out of breath at the end of a mile. I'll need to push it to 1.5 or 2 soon.

It was the 10 year anniversary for me and my beautiful wife. We had the house to ourselves. It was very nice and relaxing. Looking forward to the 20,30 and more year anniversaries.

Forgot my iPod today. I didn't want to try the stepper without music to distract me. So I started by walking on the treadmill. Then I thought to myself, I do 2.6 miles a day on the stepper, I should be able to run a bit. So I did. I cranked it up to 6.0 with a .5 incline and ran for 10 minutes. That gave me a total of 1 mile. I was pretty happy with that. I feel like I should have been able to go more. But I was pretty wiped out by the run. I think I may pick up some new shoes this weekend and start working a run into the routine again.

still cruisin' along with level 6 feeling a little better every day. Looking forward to the weekend now. It's Jennifer and my 10th anniversary. Doesn't seem anywhere near that long, but there you are.

Still getting more tolerable which is nice. Definitely waiting til Wednesday to make a decision about level 7.