NSV...on the treadmill last night.

I ran. Well, jogged actually. For almost 6 minutes straight at an incline of 5 to 8%. I've been walking on the treadmill since October and gradually did things to increase my calorie burn. I started walking 3.0 MPH for 20 minutes with no incline 3 times a week and worked my way up. As of last week, I was doing about 40 to 45 minutes at 3.5 MPH (which is really my max walking rate, anything faster and I have to break into a jog, must be because of my short legs LOL) with an incline varied up to 4%, while doing arm exercises (alternating punches, bicep curls, and overhead raises). I was doing that workout about 5 times a week. I had tried doing C25K a couple months ago and did the first two sessions but quickly found that my body didn't like it. I could tell I would start to develop shin splints and tendonitis so I went back to walking. I also could just barely do the 90 seconds of jogging.

Last night I decided to try something different because I didn't really have 40 to 45 minutes to work out. I tried a program on my treadmill. I did the short/easiest one. It was 20 minutes and varied up to 8% incline and 4.0 MPH. I did almost the entire thing the way it was programmed. The only thing I did was go down from the 8% incline early, though did more than half of that.

But the biggest accomplishment was that I jogged...for 6 minutes straight! I realize that's kind of pitiful to people more fit than me, but that's huge for me. And, I had no signs of impending shin splints or tendonitis.