lancesmom - you wrote in last week's thread that you might be having some difficulties when running with your dog. I am still working on getting my dog to heal. In the mean time, my wife purchased a head halter called the Gentle Leader and my dog will not pull when wearing it. Well, at least he hasn't so far. If you enjoy running with your dog, or like the protection, this product is worth considering. It was about $20 at PetSmart. Also, watch the video or ask for help fitting it. You can find helpful videos on youtube too. For what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with the store nor the product. Best of luck!

YAY! I finished week 6 day 2, "no sweat" today! I did 1 mile in the first 10, .85 mi in the 2nd 10. I felt good until a dog scared me in the last few minutes. I think I'm gonna blame the dog for my .15 loss in the 2nd 10 min interval And hooray for beating the rain by less than 5 minutes! Anyway, I'm a little apprehensive for the next run, week 6 day 3 (25 min run, no stopping!) but I suppose I'm prepared. I think the fact that I took a *few* days off (umm...5?) due to a shoulder injury from work helped me run a better run today. I didn't want to aggravate it so I worked out last Wed but didn't do any running since like...Tuesday. On a Livejournal c25k forum, I got a laugh out of someone asking if everyone thought about Robert Ullery (the robot voice on the podcasts) as being a sadist and how they would talk back to him. Now whenever I hear him, I have to chuckle.

Glad to hear your mom's feeling better. I don't know what she had going on, but something that helped me as I was just getting going was icing my knees after every run even if they weren't currently hurting. It helped me keep runner's knee at bay while I was just getting started. (I had a history of starting, getting runner's knee, quitting, waiting a few years, starting again, getting runner's knee again, quitting again... ) And ain't that a great feeling, going back and doing an easier run and thinking, "Gee, this used to seem so hard and now it's easy!"

Thanks guys! She's was icing her knee last week, but that's a good idea doing it even if there's no pain. I'll pass it on! About to head out for the end of week three now...storm coming and the wind has picked up like crazy in the last few, so I hope I'm not too late

I finally figured I am ready to go on from Week Three. Not quite ready, though, to do Week Four. So I compromised, and decided to make up a week 3B for myself. Instead of going right from run three minutes, to run five, I have decided to do a week of going four minutes, It worked out better than my expectations today. Have a good week! Woods Lady

ChupChup - I'll check into the Gentle Leader. Thank you for the suggestion. I have heard of the Gentle Leader but hve not tried it. I will look for the Gentle Leader this weekend. My dog, Lance, is a very good boy but since we don't live in a housing development we don't walk on a regular basis during the winter months (I know, I'm a bad dog mom). I'll focus on getting him out on my non running days until he gets used to people, squirrels, etc again. It sure would be nice to have Lance with me when running or riding my bike.

Oh man, it's amazing what 30 degrees can do!!! It is 88 degrees here and it was NOT easy!

See, I'm headed the other direction... Yesterday was 80 and I had NO PROBLEM leaving the house. Today was in the 40s and I'm ready to go back into hibernation