Week 30 of 52

                                             DIARY OF A BEGINNING RUNNER......
Wednesday 25th July 2012...
               I have been looking at a website for a few weeks now wondering if I could start their program...well today I gave it a try...I took Izzy for a walk/run...took us about 35 minutes...I didn't do this quite right for the first time out...week one day one...W1D1...is supposed to be 60 seconds jogging then 90 seconds walking after a 5 minute warm up walk...for a total of 20 minutes...I think I could do this if I did not take Izzy with me...she was in worse shape then I was by the time we got home...I think some of my running time was longer then the required 60 seconds but I know I also walked longer then the 90 seconds...Izzy wanted to flop down and not walk anymore...the website is...www.fromcouchto5k...check it out and if any of my Minnesota friends want to join me let me know...Aaron will be home this weekend and he is going to go with me Friday morning...W1D2...same timing...Aaron has already ran one half marathon...but he said he would stay with me and then go off for a real run...

Thursday 26th July...
             This morning my legs are a little sore...my calf muscles and my thighs are hurting...I think some of it is probably the yoga class last night...we were doing a lot of stretching of the leg muscles...and poses to open the hips...REMINDER to myself...do not run on a yoga class day...

Friday 27th July...
             Aaron got home last night so this morning after the false start on Wednesday I started the program over W1D1...with Aaron as my running partner...it went well...Aaron pushed me a little harder then I would have probably gone by myself...running 2 minutes sometimes instead of the required 1 minute...

Sunday 29th July...
            When I got up this morning it was pouring with rain and I thought we wouldn't be going running...how wrong I was...Aaron got up and said that he was ready when I was...so I found a light weight rain jacket and off we went...it actually felt good to run in the rain...Aaron had the watch to time me but here again he had me run longer then the program requirements...one time we ran longer then 5 minutes...he is a tough coach...Aaron left to back to North Dakota so now I am on my own with this thing called running...hope I can stay motivated and go out by myself...I know from experience with yoga that it is easier to stay with it when you are sharing the experience with a friend...but right now I can say...W1D2...done...

Week 29 of 52

                     This week I only worked two days...yeah...that's the way I like it in the summer...I was all set for us to start putting down some flooring...but it is not here yet...now our expected delivery is tomorrow...so we will see what this week brings...

                   So needless to say this week I had to find some other thing to do for my week 29 of 52...Aaron was home for the 4th and he sorted out everything he wanted from his closet...there were still a lot of stuff left in there...some good...some not so good...so I went through his closet and I now have a big bag to donate and a bigger bag of trash...sentimental old me kept some things that Aaron didn't care about...

                                                       Aaron didn't care if I kept Fievel

But I could I let Fievel go when I have this photo of Aaron at three years old having a tea party with Fievel

Week 28 of 52

            I know I am a couple of days late with this post...today I am doing the final touch up of the paint...where I took the painters tape off and pulled the paint off...

             The flooring is ordered and delivery is due today...so that will be the next step...Joe and I have never put flooring in before...at least not pergo...so we will see how this goes and if we will make our 30th anniversary next year after working so closely together on this project...

                                                     This is a sample of the flooring...

Week 27 of 52

             Do you realise that we are now into the second half of the year...six months of the year has gone already...where does the time go...this week is going to be big...I just hope we can pull this one off in a timely manner..it's probably going to take a few weeks to do but at least here is a start...
            We emptied my Mom's bedroom of all her furniture and moved ours to her room...Mom's is lighter weight to carry downstairs...once our bedroom was empty we started to take up the carpet...even got Adam to help...

            Does anyone else use the powder product to freshen your carpets...this is what happens to that product...it goes through the carpet and the padding and sits on the sub floor...I will not be using this product on anymore of my carpets...

            Once we got the carpet up we started painting the bedroom walls...at least Joe did...I was planning on starting this on my days off work this week but got sick...so it got delayed a few days...It's hard to tell from this photo but the paint is a brownish grayish color...coconut husk is the official color...

Work in progress...to be continued...