Getting there!

In the past week I have been to the City's fitness & aquatic center three times, with improvements each time!

The first time I went was Friday 9/6. I did 2 minutes on the eliptical before my legs got too tired and I moved to the treadmill.  I walked on the treadmill for just under 17 minutes until my legs started getting so red and itchy I had to quit.  I was going between 3.5 and 4.0 MPH and kept my heart rate right around 140.

Saturday evening I had a little problem with my old nemesis, shin splints, but I iced them and that helped.

Wednesday 9/11 I squeezed another trip in (it was a busy day of errands and an optometrist appt. so it would've been easy to skip).  Wednesday I was able to do 5 minutes on the eliptical and then did 30 minutes on the treadmill.   I walked at about the same pace I did on Friday, but I didn't need to stop because of my legs. YAY!

Wednesday I felt so good afterwards I remember thinking, "I wish I could go Thursday . . . "  That is NOT me.  I'm lazy and despise working out so that thought absolutely shocked me.

Thursday I had no problems with my shins hurting me, though my glutes were a little sore.  I'm considering the sore glutes a good thing meaning I'm making progress.  They weren't "Oh.My.Goodness! I can't move!" sore . . . just a little reminder that muscles were being worked :)

Today I went straight to the gym after dropping my daughter off at preschool (the previous two mornings were a little later in the day because of appointments and other things that needed to be done).  It was a little more crowded this time and all 4 treadmills were busy when I got there.  I did the elipitcal for 5 minutes and then a treadmill opened up.  About 17ish minutes into using the treadmill I changed one of the settings and then the whole thing stopped and wouldn't re-start.  I'm sure it was human error, but by then another machine opened up so I went there.  (3 are the same type and one is a bit different.  It was the different one I had issues with).  Though my goal was just to do about 13 minutes on the second treadmill to finish what I'd already started, I ended up going another 30 full minutes!   I had to slow down a little because I was getting a stich in my side.  I also noticed my shins were starting to hurt so I let up a little bit.

Time will tell how I feel tomorrow, but right now I'm pretty proud of myself that I've been able to go 3x in the past 7 days.   Looking at next week I should be able to go at least twice and may be able to go 3x!