Running

I decided to take up running and went for my first long solo run this evening. I got some appropriate shoes on Tuesday, and since then I've had a few short, rather ineffectual runs by myself and a couple long ones with Dancing Physicist. The last time I ran with him I traced it out on Google Maps later and found the longest continuous segment to be about 3/4 of a mile.

Today I did the same route, and I started running at an earlier point but came up short of my target. I thought it was a similar distance, but when I traced it out Google told me I ran about a mile. That is kind of crazy to me, because I have never been able to run a mile straight before, and I really wasn't sure I could run as far by myself as with someone else motivating me. I remember in sixth and seventh grade, for PE they made us run a mile as some test and I probably had to stop and walk six or eight times. My 6th grade time was 10:30 and my 7th grade time was 11:26. I wonder if I'm beating those times now; it doesn't seem like I'm going very fast but it must be faster if I'm running continuously.

Progress is certainly forthcoming. I haven't even been sore in the mornings after the first time.