4 mile run...

Okay so I have several New Year resolutions, one of which is to finally lose all this damn baby weight!!  I'm getting closer but it's still not gone.  Yes I know my son is 18 months old.  Unfortunately I am not one of those women that loses it the day I come home from the hospital.  And of course I'm not going to be happy with being at the weight I was at pre-Cael...I want to lose 10-15 more than that.  Keep in mind that I teach Kindergarten.  What does that have to do with anything?!  I need positive reinforcement, encouragement & a goal to reach or I won't do anything!!  So I found out there is a 4 mile run in April at the plaza in KC.  I've decided that I am going to work my butt off to be able to do it!!  Courtney says he'll join me - we'll see.  Courtney got me the nike+ipod sport package for Christmas and it is awesome!!!  It's a sensor that you put in a pouch on your shoe (or in your shoe if you have the fancy nike shoe which I don't) and then there is a thingy that plugs into your ipod.  You can set it for lots of different things, one of them being the distance you run.  I decided to start today to make sure it works correctly.  I set it for 1 mile and started running.  While I'm running & my music is playing this voice comes over and tells me I'm halfway done!  Then it started with 500 meters left and told me how much was left every 100 meters.  I learned that the distance setting on my treadmill is completely off and I've been running much farther than it tells me.  I also was able to run a mile is pretty much the same time as Kate & I did in PR which THRILLS me!!!  Here's my plan for the 4 mile run: for the month of January I will start with 1 mile and bump up my distance a quarter of a mile each week.  So the month of February puts me at 2 miles bumping it up a quarter of a mile each week.  March will be 3 miles bumping it up a quarter of a mile each week so that the first week of April I will run 4 miles and be ready for the run on April 17th.  I decided to write about it on here so maybe I will actually stick with it.  We'll see how it goes!  If any of you want to run with me in April let me know!  Katie Dill I'm looking at you......