[darkpuppet]

So about 10 weeks ago, I started down the road to improving my running fitness -- with a goal set to run the Mississauga (half) marathon in May.

Well, this past weekend, I reached goal #1 in running 5km (at the santa shuffle) in under half an hour (and without walking).



This was the longest I've ever ran without stopping, and I have to admit the last 10 minutes were pretty brutal for my fat ass (working on that too).

I'll post my heart rate graph once I download it from my watch... it's a nice steady climb to about 180bpm...

Considering that I did train consistently for the first 5km, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about being fit enough to do more than 4x that in May...