Went for a slow run at lunch with Val! It was a gorgeous 55 degree day, and Val asked me to come with her for her first ever run in the great outdoors.
She's been walking, and biking, and using the elliptical at her training appointments, but after a while it was hard for her to get her heart rate up to where her trainers wanted it. At that point I suggested she just run for a few minutes at a pop. Which seemed to help.
At some point when I was talking with my neighbor about running St. Patricks Day Dash, she committed to it too!!! She's been working hard at Couch To 5K (in her own interpretation), she's really paranoid about the distance since the dash is 3.75, not 3.1, so she's been adding extra intervals, or as the runs intervals have gotten harder, she's walking till she gets to the mileage. Hopefully first 20 minute run on this Saturday!
We ran/walked 2.3 miles around the neighborhood for her first outdoor run, and her first back to back run. I was able to give her some advice about her breathing on the run, that will hopefully resolve some side stitch issues, but other than that she's doing great!
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