Cause she told me to

Oct 9th my sister in-law tells me shes going to do a c25k program, "That's Awesome!", I tell her.  Hers is going to be the, "Treadmill Edition".  She feels she has to justify this to me because my running club shirts (I started a running club lol) say, "Treadmills get you nowhere".  I tell her it doesn't matter how you do it, "Whatever works for you!"

I'll touch on treadmills some other time.

Some background:

August of 2012, I see that my brother completed a 5k, (at the time I didn't even know how long a 5k was, why would I need to...)  I say to myself, "If he can do a 5k, I can do a 5k!".  So I Google it, like everything else, it's 3.1 miles. "3.1 miles?!? It can't be that tough."

So I look up running programs, find a c25k program and kinda wing it. Why would I follow a program designed for beginning runners??? I don't know, cause that would be too easy. Fast forward three months to the Mike Donohoe Memorial 5k, I PR'd with a 24:25 (hint: you always PR your first race). That was the beginning of my running career. Career, that's funny.

We'll talk about the Running Club later.


Back to the sister in-law, I check in with her from time to time, to see how far the treadmill is getting her.  I try to give some pointers on diet, breathing, and other running stuff, (cause I know everything there is to know about running after a year of doing it... right). She appreciates it though, I think.

She told me today that her first goal was to run, now her goal is to run outside.

We all have our reasons for doing things the way we do them. I modified my c25k, she started on the treadmill, going nowhere...


She tells me I'm the reason,(at least one of them) that she started running.

I'll tell you I started this blog, cause she told me to.