Begin week one

Saturday was the initial training meeting where we met the coaches, met the other runners (there's a couple dozen and I'm actually not the most out of shape! Although I'm probably the second-most out of shape) and got some info. The first actual long run is this coming Saturday, which means today was the first official "maintenance run." Of course, at the moment I'm not exactly maintaining anything. I did a total of 20 minutes running and 10 minutes walking - we're supposed to do 30-45 minutes of pure interval work which at 30 minutes should be more like 25 minutes of running, but give me a break, it's my first one. I did five minutes, then walked one, then ran five, then walked one, then ran five, then walked three, then ran five, and finally walked five. Total distance covered: 2.43 miles, of which about 2 was running. So while the total distance was less than last time, at least I devoted much more time to the running itself. And I seem to be holding a decent 10-minute mile pace, at least over the course of the full run. Let's see how things go on Wednesday for the second maintenance run; last week I was too sore and blistered to go again, but new technical socks and insoles have fixed that problem (at least for the time being) so the only question will be how my muscles feel. Prediction: they don't feel that great.