A week later

So, i've managed to find a time that works for me at the moment with extra work on my plate - that hour before dinner, straight after getting home from work. It's been fantastic to look forward to my run.
I've been working through and am ready to move on from week 3. Tonight I went for a run and did the standard program and then just kept running and went an additional 1km. Felt fabulous and was the push I think I needed to give myself. It will be interesting to see how my legs feel tomorrow. For so long i've been doing the standard runs and haven't really felt anything the next day.
Am still planning on the 6kms for the City to Bay, but am open to doing the 12km if i've progressed well by then.
I decided tonight to put the scales away for a few weeks and to get the tape measure out. I've been finding it really offputting to get on the scales and not see any weight change even though i'm eating well and running, and yet i feel like my pants fit better, so we'll do it the old fashioned way for a while and in a month or so i'll pull them out again and hopefully it will be more encouraging!
Well, that's it for now, can't wait to report that i've done 20 continuous minutes running.

Change of focus

Floating around in my mind for quite some time now is a desire to 'do' something with my running program once I have got up to the 5kms. I've decided that the best way to move forward is to change my focus to what I AM going to do......run 5kms in the City to Bay this year (2010). For those who don't know, its a fun run on September 19th, there's an opportunity to walk or run various lengths, but i'm sticking with my 5kms. For now.
So far I have managed twice to get to week 4 of the C25K running program and then hit a hitch, the first time it was pregnancy, this time it was 2 sprained ankles and some serious pain. With some treatment I am almost back to running and looking forward to getting past that week 4 hump! (By the way, didn't sprain the ankles running, managed to do it firefighting, damn hilly terrain).

My blog from now on will be a weekly update of my running, maybe a weight update, but i'm more interested in focusing on the mins/kms achieved.
So, if by any chance you're reading, feel free to add some encouragement or advice and join me as I work my way to a real goal.

Cheers
Annie