Thanks so much to you all!
I asked so many questions last year, if any of you remember. I was constantly asking about pace, etc. and trying to figure out how to get faster, what I was doing wrong, etc. I thank you all for your patience!
Starting in about May or June, I started doing some speed work on the track...well, I guess you can call it speed work, but whatever, I ran intervals. I ran with a club. People helped and encouraged me. I slogged away at my intervals at a pace somewhere between 10:30 and 11:30 and I guess I eventually got a little faster. I ran slow and steady thru those horribly hot (I'm in Houston...It's a sauna!) summer months. I found a group of ladies that run as slow as me! We're all slowly getting better and faster. I ran with my daugher some and she told me that I lean forward and hunch over. Amazing how much easier it is to breathe when you stand up straight! It really helped me a lot to run with others.
Getting ever slightly better, ever so slowly is good! It's just hard to understand so much of what you say until you do it! I think I've improved because of the intervals which several of you encouraged. In the beginning, they weren't even intervals so much as just speeding up for a little bit and then slowing back down for a while. Also, I'm pretty sure I even did a little of Love the Half's just run faster stuff.
I think it takes both and I'm still out there and enjoying it!!! Thanks so much for everyone's help!!! I'll have another RR to write here in a few more weeks!