And then there were 20

Today was my first 20 minutes in a row, no breaks.

Yes!

It felt great.

Tiny steps got me here. Some people might not understand my excitement. Two months ago running for 1 minute was hard (ish). Each step along the way was a challenge and I made it all the way to 20 minutes. (as did my friend Steph. Yay us!)

My neck and shoulders are all screwed up today. It is as if every muscle in my neck and shoulders are clenched tight. I can move my head, but only carefully. Still... I ran anyways. Yippeee.

I am comitting to running 3 times a week for good. 3 times a week is do-able. I can face the cold, the snow, the ice 3 times a week. Running 5-7 times a week can get to be a chore. For now 3 will be good. I'm OK with that. I'll certainly think about it again down the road but for now I am just happy that I can do this.

Now that my beginner plan has ended... the new plan is to keep my runs continuous holding at 20 minutes for 3 weeks then adding on about 2 minutes a week to each run until the runs are all 30 minutes.