I'm back!!!

Today I hit my treadmill for a combination of running and walking for a total of 7 miles.  I walked the first 0.5 mile, then ran 1 mile, then walked 0.5 mile, then ran 0.5 mile, and so forth until I hit 6 miles, then I walked the rest of the way.  I also discovered that my treadmill shuts down at 100 minutes which is annoying.  I wish my treadmill had a "pause" feature which I really needed when there was a brief incident with my dogs that I needed to jump off and deal with quickly.  I had to reduce the speed to a very slow crawl and then jump back on, so my time on the treadmill wasn't actually 100 minutes, but whatever.  I tried hitting the "stop" button a few weeks ago when I needed to pause, but by the time I got back to the treadmill it had shut down and I lost my progress.  Perhaps this is a good time to peruse the owner's manual for my treadmill.

I'm still having balance issues from the surgery but at least now I know I can start running again!  I wanted to run this morning with my running club (Arvada Running Club, I love them!) but I wasn't sure how I'd do on the run, plus my usual running partner was running the Rock 'n' Roll half-marathon in New Orleans (which she killed by the way, congrats Allaina!!).  The ARC just started its Tuesday night track workouts, so I'm looking forward to that!

On a side note, I've been playing soccer in a women's only adult soccer league (no coed for me anymore ever since getting hit in the jaw by a soccer ball kicked from a male player).  I've decided to give up soccer.  At least three women on my team have been hurt this season, one badly enough to require surgery and months of rehabilitation.  That makes me nervous, plus I've found I don't enjoy playing adult league soccer as much as I did when we still lived in Alaska.  I tore my MCL in my left knee a number of years ago so I know what it's like to be injured and unable to run, and soccer just isn't worth it.  I've been meaning to get back into swimming laps so I can do an open water swim race this summer, so I'll do that instead.