Yesterday, I increased my intervals to two minutes running, one minute walking. No way to sugar coat it, it was HARD. There it was my first day with my new running watch, this new little toy for which I was so excited, and I swung violently between utter hatred and serious affection for it at the beeps.

I picked the light blue one, BTW. There was pink, light blue and black - as anyone who knows me will attest, I'm not so much on the pink and actually, I LOVE black - but light blue seemed positive and optimistic, almost encouraging, so I chose it. This is, of course, evidence of my desperation to stay motivated and encouraged that the color of a watch would ever produce that much thought on my part. 'Fashion' never garners that much of my attention.

Moving along, today I did the team run and the new increase in intervals was much, much easier. I still have to push myself, no doubt, but it was noticeably easier and I wasn't overwhelmed with the urge to take a hammer to my watch when it beeped at me that it was time to run again. ; ) I'm very encouraged that I'll be able to do this.

On a heartbreaking note, one of the local heros that the organization recognizes passed away last week. Please remember all the victims of cancer and their families in your thoughts and prayers this week.

And tomorrow, the training regimen dictates REST!!