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Into week three of Couch25K. It is still doable. I am not as exhausted as a few weeks ago, but still tired by Saturday. I might be able to do this!! I signed up for a 5K on the 22nd. It’s the Head over Teal run for the Laura Crandall Ovarian Cancer Foundation. Not expecting to run the 5K. But will be putting ear buds in and doing another day of C25K. That should take about 1.75 miles and then I will walk the other 1.35 miles. It should be a fun day.

I want to get into the habit of doing one race a month. One day I will be able to run the 5K. There are so many 5K races in this area. The Trak Shak has a web page of the races. There are multiple races every Saturday. There should be several races close to me each month.

On Monday and Friday, I am still doing a mini-cross-fit work out. Wednesday are for C25K. The cross fit workout includes a 0.3 mile run around the dog park. There is 0.1-mile track which I run then stop to do calisthenics.  Run another 0.1 followed by more calisthenics. This sequence involves the 0.3 run and four sets of calisthenics. Planning to increase the running a little each month. Hopefully reaching a mile run with calisthenics by January.

I am the turtle not the hare. A little at the time. Found a site on the internet which shows 100-year-olds still running. Yes, that’s correct, 100-year-olds. There were three different ones. All of them starting running in retirement. That is my inspiration. Being able to run a 100m dash at age 100. Here is the web site. https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/100-year-world-record-holder-shares-running-secrets-38828892

Get inspired.

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