Hitting the pavement!

After a crazy month of studying, I finally laced up my sneakers and went for a run yesterday and it felt really good.

I downloaded Get Running, a couch to 5k app for my iPhone a while ago and I’ve decided to follow it as my training program.  I ran and walked a total 2.20 miles in 32 minutes.  I started out with a 5 minute warm up walk followed by 8 alternating 1 minute runs and 1 1/2 minute walks and finished with another 5 minute cool down walk. You only run every other day in the program, so today is my rest day.  Its probably a really good thing is it my rest day because its pouring outside. 

I’m really pumped to complete the whole program.  I’m looking for races that I could sign up for more towards the end of the summer.  I used to be a pretty good runner in high school and I hope I can get back into it.

Since we are leaving for vacation this Saturday, we are trying to clean out our fridge so we don’t leave food behind to get spoiled.  For dinner, since there was very little to work with, I made myself a salad out of the few veggies we had left.  I combined spring mix, an orange pepper, a tomato, some string cheese and a veggie burger and topped it off with vinaigrette.  It was pretty good and munchkin even stole some from me.

After dinner, we headed to Babies R Us so I could buy munchkin a harness backpack thing for our vacation.  Munchkin is notorious for running away while in public and losing him in Mexico does not sound like fun.  He might look a little silly in it, but I think its better to be safe than sorry.  We also went to Marshall’s where I bought myself some headphones because out of the three pairs that I had, both headphones didn’t work in any.  I got really cool looking headphones.  They’re the Skullcandy Houla Galaxie and they are wooden headphones and the cords on them are like rope instead of the usual plastic cords.  They were only $25 at Marshall’s but cost $99 on the Skullcandy website.  I got an awesome deal!

I got the aqua colored ones.

Now its time to find something to eat for breakfast and get back to packing.  My suitcase can only weigh 40 pounds, so this might be a challenge for me.