Comeback - 1

I have decided to chronicle my comeback to running. Since I had stopped 4 years ago, I have had some major health issues which were due to Lyme disease.

I am not under treatment for it, and have been since March and I am feeling great. I have also requested prayer from my church to help restore my health. Believe what you want, but I can feel the healing power of God as I am making a comeback to not only restoration of my health, but then to running. A way to keep myself healthy as I enter the second half of my life.

I have been walking 2 miles daily with my dogs since this summer, which was after the June reconstruction surgery. Before that since I had 7 surgeries last year, I was doing no exercise to speak of, simply because I was so tired.

As of two weeks ago I started to consistently run/jog. I attempted to start before school, but then the start of school exhausted me and I didn't keep going. It was at this time I started making prayer requests from my church body. My workouts the last two weeks have consisted of 2 - 3 times each week for 35 minutes of running/jogging and 10 - 15 minutes of stretching and strengthening.

My workout looked like this:
walk 1 min
run 1 min
walk 1 min
run 2 min
walk 1 min
run 3 min
walk 1 min
run 4 min
walk 1 min
run 5 min
walk 1 min
run 4 min
walk 1 min
run 3 min
walk 1 min
run 2 min
walk 1 min
run 1 min
walk 1 min
total of 25 min running

but today I stepped it up and my running pace stayed at 5.5 (10:45) the entire time, so now my owrkout looks like this
run 1 min
walk 1 min
run 2 min
walk 1 min
run 3 min
walk 1 min
run 4 min
walk 1 min
run 5 min
walk 1 min
run 4 min
walk 1 min
run 3 min
walk 1 min
run 2 min
walk 1 min
run 2 min
walk 1 min
total of 26 min running

My goal is to increase minutes by walking less and increasing my pace. So far I feel strong and my feet are holding up. I do stretch them A LOT after I am done running and then again throughout the day. I know I am dealing with scar tissue as well as other issues, so my stretching is quite involved and I am ok with this. At 50, it is imperative to stay limber. My left shoulder and arm started tightening up since 6 of the 7 surgeries were from that side, and now that I am stretching it, my mobility is returning.