Day 27, 28 and 29

 I just have to start off by saying I have a new favorite song that gets me up and ready to move. It's "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. I heard it in the car the other day, so I found it online and have been listening to it on loop every day since. Anyway, the soreness is all gone although one of my toes on my right foot has started hurting and I have absolutely no idea why. I checked it out and can't see anything wrong, so I don't know what happened but I'll keep an eye on it and hope that it goes away as quickly as it appeared. 

The strength training is going well. It definitely upped the intensity with some of the moves. And I do appreciate the warm up and cool down. I think if all continues to go well this week I might increase the number of reps a bit for next week. Also, my favorite walking buddy and I have almost doubled our amount of daily walking, so Yay! It's getting pretty hot out, mid 80s today, so I need to make sure to wear sunscreen and bring lots of water. I wear a sun hat which helps shade my face pretty well but it doesn't always block the sun from getting to my neck so I need to remember to put sunscreen on before leaving for my walks. As for the water, we've been stopping home to refill before doing our second loop. That works ok, but maybe I'll buy a larger insulated water bottle for summer. 

I also thought I'd share a little background. I started running way back when I was 7 years old. I hated it at first. My parents wanted my siblings and I to get out of the house during the summer and keep active so they signed us up for the Summer Rec Program which included different sports and other activities. We ended up trying out Track & Field. I had no idea what I wanted to do so the coach had me try out pretty much every event over the course of the summer. I was terrible at everything. Of course, I had never run or done any kind of field events before in my life, so why would I be good? But I was a kid and at the time didn't realize how much work people put into becoming better.