Thanks Josephine. Your avatar is SO great!
What's this "blue team" thing?

I did my 35 mins on the elliptical today, 2.7mi and then did my 5 min jog on the treadmill and then my cool down and stretches and such. I HATE the treadmill, I really do. I am constantly looking at the time and praying for the time to be up. I can't see myself doing 6 minutes right now because I'm just waiting for the time to be up.

I may go to the local track this weekend and try jogging there. That way, I can go by distance (times around the track i.e 1/4 miles) instead of having to stare at the time on the treadmill.

I tell ya, one thing that is rather discouraging is to look at the tredmill's # of calories burned. After jogging for five minutes, I'm all sweaty and all for 27 calories burned. I know they aren't accurate, I don't even have an option to enter my age/weight, but it still sucks

Hi COol Runners!
Well, I did not go for my long run-- it rained in the am and I considered going in the rain-- but then reconsidered b/c I had this LASIK scheduled. I did go in for the LASIK. It was cerainly a quick, but extrememly unpleasant procedure. But, here I am right now w/o glasses and having 20/15 vision in each eye!! (that's better than 20/20)

pretty cool stuff.

now back to cool running, glasses free!!

Sigh, kittycat:
I dream of LASIK. I will wait a while though. I'm so used to contacts. I have such bad eyesight - my contacts are up to -9 so it would be awesome to not have to wear them. Life is just a blur without them.

I dream of Lasik, too. Maybe someday. The comment "extremely unpleasant" however, doesn't give me the warm fuzzies!

Girlie -- "Blue Team" refers to a challenge I am in over in the "Biggest Loser" forum and I am on the "blue team".

What pushed me to get the surgery is that my eyeballs became intolerant of lenses. It's a huge bummer to ALWAYS wear glasses. I've worn glasses/lenses since age 12. Then while preggo with baby (now exactly 2) went thru some eye thing and that was the beginning of the end of lenses.

I'm seeing every leaf on every tree. Very awesome. But, again.. if I could still wear lenses I would never have considered it.

hoping to run tomorrow. Need to see how to get it into my day. Many appts and babysitting crunch.

So - I'm really looking forward to week 2 of C25K, but I'm wondering if I can modify it like this..

Monday - W2D1
Tuesday - Repeating W1D1's regime
Wednesday - W2D2
Thursday - W1D1
Friday - W2D3

Do you think that's OVER doing it?? I just feel like I'm not exercising anywhere near enough like I should be to meet my weight goal. I'm trying to keep a healthy balance, but I'm just not quite sure where that is. Any input?

I had Lasik surgery about 5 years ago. I hated running with glasses, they fogged up and were a PIA. I wasn't terribly nearsighted, so was a very good candidate. I thought the procedure was a piece of cake, a little odd-feeling, but not painful or anything. My eyes were a little sore and scratchy feeling that night. I was driving the next day and back to all normal activities within a day or two, with no glasses! I can still see at a distance just beautifully, but have had to start using reading glasses in the last year or so ... old age catches up with us all. (Lasik doesn't cure presbyopia, at least not yet) But in general, I'm very happy I had it done. I love being able to wear any kind of cool sunglasses I want to, no prescription required!!

Oh yeah, I did my easy 5 miler on Saturday, a 9 mile long run along the beach with the girls on Sunday, a 5 mile easy/tempo run on Tuesday and 40 minutes of speed intervals yesterday. So my thread is on technically on topic.

I think it would be ok as long as you aren't feeling a great deal of soreness from the exercise. The C25k programs are doing more than training your cardiovascular system, they are slowly building mileage so that your muscles, joints, and tendons etc. can slowly get used to the rigors of running as well. Taking the program slowly definitely helps avoid alot of injuries that new runners tend to get by trying to do too much, too fast.

But I also understand wanting to get in more exercise. What I did when I was doing the C25k program was swim and bike as ways to get in more exercise while using different muscle groups. Swimming and biking are excellent cross training for running, so there is an option you might consider. But if those aren't alternatives for you, I think your outlined plan would be fine as long as you listen carefully to your body. You don't want to rush through this process!

Speaking for swimming, I've decided to shake things up a bit for myself and swim in the mornings and run at night after it is dark when it is cooler instead of my usual early morning runs. For last two days I did so much stuff outside (between running and yard work) that I just burnt out because of the heat.

So this morning I biked over to the rec pool and swam about a mile. Wow, did that cool water feel good. I need to improve my swim fitness anyway, so this is, in theory, a good plan for me plus I'll get lots of double workouts (how can that be a bad thing!?!). I've never liked waiting around to work out at night though, so we'll see if I can make this routine comfortable for me.

I did 3 miles this morning at 6.0 mph pace. That was my goal for doing the c25k program, and I've finally done it! I was only planning on doing 28 minutes today, but I figured an extra 2 minutes to finish the last mile wouldn't hurt. I think I'm going to get comfortable at the 6.0 mph pace and slowly move up the mileage (eventually!) to 5-6 miles once or twice a week. I'm going to do some intervals and speedwork at the track too I think. Any advice for a newbie to running?

Your mini-triathlon sounds great! I never learned how to ride a bike, but does the elliptical machine do anywhere similar a work out for your body? And our pool opens up Saturday so swimming is fantastic! Thanks for the input.

Whoo hoo, I just got back from my run, 6.21 miles. Other than feeling like I'm "waiting around" to go do the run, I really did enjoy running at night. I saw wild bunnies! And a bat!