When I started running again after being away for a couple of years, I wanted to get to the point where I was running 6 miles a day comfortably, every day or nearly every day. 6 miles a day was my usual run before I started commuting to NYC and gained weight. That goal just seemed unattainable. I weighed 245 pounds, I could barely run 10 minutes, my knees hurt, my neck hurt, I felt horrible. In December 2003 I started walking and running again. It has been a struggle to stay motivated and injury free, but I've made my first goal. A 6-mile run now feels like the easiest thing in the world when I run it at a comfortable pace. I much prefer 8 miles and ran 10 miles a couple of weeks ago.
Probably the best feeling in the world is to get up, run, then cool off in the pool before I come back to the house and get dressed for work.
So what's next? I think I'd like to increase my weekly long run up about a mile per week until I hit 28 miles. It's tough to do that here in the summer, but I'll start doing more 10 mile runs on Saturday and maybe 12 or 14 in August.
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