I feel like a champ!

I've been alternating between bicycling, walking, and doing some short jogging intervals for exercise over the past month or so and the weight loss has been great, but I wasn't sure if I was making a lot of progress in the fitness department.

So, yesterday, I was at this local park that has a walking trail with distance markers on it and it brought back the memory of having to run the mile in high school. In my memory, it was a grueling, long, humiliating experience. I could never actually run the whole thing, and by the end I was always entirely exhausted and defeated.

But yesterday was a beautiful day, I had nowhere to be for an hour, and so I thought, "What the heck. I'll just try." My goal was just to see if I could jog the whole thing. Not worried about speed, just wondering if I could make it.

Well, did I ever! :bigsmile: It was SO much easier than I remembered it being! Mind you, it wasn't exactly "easy" for me, but I had enough energy to sprint the last dozen yards... and I wasn't so tired that I couldn't keep walking after that and even do it AGAIN half an hour later!

The best part: I timed the second run. *Under 11 minutes*!!! (Not a big deal to many people, I'm sure, but I don't think I've run a whole mile, let alone one that fast, since I was twelve years old!) I was grinning like a fool the whole way back to the car.