Goal (un)officially achieved

It's been about six weeks (going into seven) since I've taken up running, and oh yes baby it's starting to pay off.

Yup. Ran a 5k today, that's what. Yeah. Five. Kilometres. The magic 5k barrier. The goal I set myself when I decided to put on my beat-up old runners on 26 January 2011 and went outside and put one foot in front of the other and lo and behold I am running. Six weeks since I found the Couch to 5k plan and ambitiously started myself on Week 6 instead of Week 1. Somewhere in those six weeks I also signed up for a 4k fun run, which is happening on 19 March and which I'm kinda nervous about.

And today I finally made it 5k without stopping. Which is no big deal for some, but a big deal for me. Sure, I did it in 41 minutes, which is hardly world-stopping/record-breaking/earth-shattering, but the main thing is that I did it (and yes, I gotta write these cliche-sounding-motivational-things down, anything to keep me going)!

So yeah, today was another milestone. However, I'm not popping the champagne just yet. Before I can officially declare this goal of running 5k without stopping Officially Done And Achieved, I gotta actually run this distance in race conditions (they call them fun runs sometimes, but I'm sure there's an element of competitiveness in those events!). Just so I can say that me running this distance has been tried, and tested, and chip-timed, and witnessed by about a thousand other people in an Official Proper Race.

To 5k...and beyond!