Yay me. Last Saturday I ran my first 5k and completed it. Yay. I wasn't speedy gonzalez but I ran the whole thing and finished. I think my time was 49 minutes or close to it. I actually was so excited at the finish line, and since this was my very first race, I didn't know I was supposed to turn in my bib tear off thingy to stop the clock and I spent a good 5 minutees jumping for joy and visiting with my friends, family and colleagues who showed up to support me. According to my cardio trainer app on my Droid, I was clocking about 15 min 40 seconds a mile. Which beats my former best time of 18 minutes plus... 15 years ago!

Congrats! Thats awesome....

I think going from a 5k to a full marathon is going to be very rough in less then a year.. I started running in april 10 one mile.. first 5k was in 07/10... 10k in sept 10 ... HALF marathon in Nov 10.. I had a BAD achilles Tendon Strain, and the doctor state i was because of adding too many miles too quick and that I didnt give my body time to adjust to a mileage before moving up..

My advice is just watch yourself.. Dont shot out of the gate too fast and hurt yourself.. Pace yourself and you will get there soon! I am hoping to get to a full marathon too soon..