To the gym...

So tonight was the first night back to the gym.
Monday my mom and Andrea were still in town. Instead of swinging by the gym that night I swung by the pizza palor.... YUMMY!!! PIZZA!!!
Last night I packed up everything to swim - except my contacts. Now I know once I get in the water it really doesn't matter. But remember Tuesdays are the nights when all those kids are there and parents and crowds and I feel awkward enought walking around the pool area - heaven forbid I couldn't see what I was doing...
Instead I cleaned the house - dishes, change sheets, things like that...
Oh and surfed the internet for other races and triathlons....
So tonight I knew I needed to get back in that saddle so to speak.
And hey - check this out - I BEAT my run time from Sunday... Remember I don't run...
So I thought if I am going to persue this some more then I need to put some focus on the run.
In 8 weeks there is a Turkey Trot - 8k around South Park. That's 5 miles. And with the triathlon I know I can walk 5 miles... SO I think I will be signing up.
In the interim I figured it would help me focus on some running...
Now at the park on the trails I focus on every quarter mile. On the treadmill I decided I would focus on every 5 minutes.
So I did a 5 minute warm up then set the pace between 3.8 and 4.0 miles per hour. And every 5 minutes I would ramp it up to 5.8 to 6.0. I can't seem to run on the treadmill at a slower pace than that.
So in 28:58 (note 37 second faster than Sunday) I completed 2 miles.
For the total 35 minutes I did 2.36miles.
I feel pretty good about that.