Day #5: The "long run" begins!

Easter Sunday and it was a beautiful day for our first long run of our training. It's called the long run because it's supposed to be longer than the other 2 of the week so instead of the 2 mile run we did on Thursday, we ran 3 miles! The goal: to simply run the entire 3 miles without walking breaks.

The first mile was relatively quick at a 12:30 pace and as we progressed we got a little bit slower. It appeared as Amy may have been nearly attacked by a dog on mile 2 but he was friendly so nothing to be alarmed over!  As we got into the 3rd mile we did attack a rather large hill and took 30 seconds to catch our breath afterwards, but we finished strong with a 3 mile (and change) time of jst over 39 minutes.

One observation is that it seems that if we jog the entire distance we are actually a touch slower than when we ran/walked in the past. I suppose it's logical but we are not in the business of walking these miles so we will have to take the slower times for now, knowing we are building endurance.

Tomorrow we hit the gym to tone some non-running muscles!