the screaming pages

For the past few weeks I’ve been babbling, blogging, scribbling on Facebook and Tweeting about my plans to register for a Running Room walking clinic later this month. It’s been a pretty common topic of conversation for me for a while.

I’ve changed my mind.

This morning I registered for the Learn to Run clinic instead. My end goal has always been to be able to run. In fact, my end fitness goal for this whole she-bang is to be able to run a marathon. Of course, I’m going to start with smaller distances and work my way up to the 26 mile monstrosity. I haven’t completely lost my mind. Yet.

Since I’ve managed to work my way from walking 1km to 5km in an hour in the last 2 months all on my own, I’m pretty sure I’ll eventually be able to increase my walking distance to 10km without needing to attend a clinic first.  I haven’t yet hurt myself walking and it’s pretty easy to keep myself motivated when it comes to putting one foot in front of the other at a walking pace.

Running is a completely different story. I know I’ll need to learn lots in order to ensure I don’t increase the existing damage to my knees and ankles.  It won’t hurt how to properly dress for the weather and eat for training, etc.

My upcoming goal is to run/walk my way through the 5km at the Little Big Run in May.