Woo hooo!!!

I've just finished my first 20 minute run (trudge). Yippeeeee! I know, I was supposed to have done that last week, but it actually happened today. :-) Better late than never. Of course, I made the mistake of changing the ap I'd been using on my iPod. I had been using a podcast (Robert Ullrey's couch to 5 k) and then I thought to myself, if it's 20 minutes straight, I can just use the ap and listen to my own music. Well..... not my best idea. Apparently the app I downloaded plays a siren when it's time to switch pace! So there I was, be-bopping and walking along to the Black Eyed Peas doing my warm-up when this blaring siren comes out of my iPod along with this awful terminator like mechanical voice saying -BE-GIN RUN NOW -.... So, I start trudging, and a slow song comes on. I, of course, can't run decently to a slower song, so I flip to my play list and skip through to a good song. Well, it happens a couple of times and I realise two things. 1) It's a whole lot harder to run without Robert's voice cheering me on... ("you're halfway there!!") and 2.) I somehow paused the dang timer!! I have no clue how long I've trudged! I fumble around, find Robert again and set it so that I'm about 9 minutes along. (I'd already trudged past the 8 minute spot.)But I got through it. :-)