So this lazy girl has been stepping up her game. On Friday, since I had to be out of my apartment while it was shown by a realtor, I went to the gym for a run on the treadmill and a Zumba class. I've been building my confidence on the treadmill experimenting with sprints and such for the past two weeks. I've also been looking at lots of different training plans to increase speed and endurance. Keeping both of those things in mind I decided to try to run for as long as possible at 6.5 which is a 9:14 pace. Then after a few minutes at that I kicked it up to around 8.0 which is a 7:30 pace for a full minute and gradually took it back down every 5-10 seconds till I got back to 6.5. I kept my eye on the clock and I hit the one mile mark after 8 minutes and 54 seconds! This was by far my personal best. I haven't been even under 10 minutes ever- at least to my knowledge. This has given me another boost of confidence and I plan on working on running 2 miles in under 20 minutes as my next goal because I do know I'm a better sprinter than distance runner and I'd like to be decent at both. I need more goals. But for now I'm tracking myself on Nike+ and am "running" through New York City.
How do you stay motivated?
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