My Heart Loves Valentine's Day Runs! I taught my PE kids today about the structure of the heart and why it is important to exercise in your target heart rate to build heart strength. It was fun. My heart enjoyed the workout today. It was a short run because I decided that this week I was going to try something new. Today I will run 2 miles, Wednesday I will run 3 miles and Friday or Saturday I will run 4 miles. The past two weeks I have been having to cut out the third run because of silly injuries. Last week it was the knee. I swear I should never say anything about not being injured. One year I said: "I have never broke a leg," a month later I was on crutches with a broken leg. Then a few weeks ago when talking with somebody who was having knee issues, I said: "My knees haven't bothered me since I have lost so many pounds." Yeah, then my knee started hurting. What is up with that? I will quit talking about injuries and then I won't be injured, right? I am getting excited for the first race of the year that will be on March 5th. My goal: blow my 5k personal record out of the water! It will be a blast. I lifted some weights today too. I am trying to build up strength. I feel week lately. I also rode for thirty minutes on the exercise bike. The 20 minute run just seemed too short. Crazy that two miles is a little over 20 minutes. I am getting faster! Yipee! Hope the day of love treated you well. I liked that it was warm today. Too bad the cold will be back later on this week! | 