Walk..Run..Walk..RUN..RUN...RUN...RUN....RUN..RUN...WOW!

First and foremost, I'm severe asthmatic and have never ran an entire mile straight without stopping, in my life. I have been VERY active since January, doing zumba 4-6 times a week religiously. It's a great, fun work out and I burn anywhere from 600-700 calories in one hours based on how much I put into it.. unfortunatley, I missed Zumba this morning and decided to hit the gym. I despise the cardio room because I feel I can burn almost twice as many calories in one hour doing zumba. I typically spend 45-60 mintues on the ellipitical and always by pass the treadmill. Today was different, I decided I was going to see how many calories I could burn doing interval training on the tread mill. I began my 5 minutes warm-up and I typically struggle, every minute I run seems FOREVER, and ever minute walked goes by way too fast. I began my first minute running, and felt great so decided to continue and shoot for two minutes, before I knew it I was at five, HOLY COW... I proceeded, got to seven and I began to get tired, breathing was still going great.. I had to push myself to ten. I RAN 10 STRAIGHT MINUTES, I took a 30 second water break, and ran an additional 5 minutes then did my usual run minute, walk minute, however, I uped the speed on the treadmill when I did intervals.. I amazed myself. January was my last attempt doing intervals and it sucked. Today motivated me to sign up for my first 5K.. I have exactly one month to train and my mini goal is to run one straight mile without stopping.. wish me luck my friends :-) BTW I burned 608 calories on the treadmill today compliments of the bodybugg.