1.08

as in MILES! Yes my dears there is an exclamation because this girl hasn't ran on the treadmill in all of about seven years? More importantly I did not stop at 1.08 miles because I couldn't breathe and not even because my knobby knees wanted to crawl off my legs and hide under one of the many couches rammed into this basement, it was because my sweet girl needed a snack. I FEEL AWESOME.

Well, now I feel awesome. The reason I put my children in front of the TV for half an hour is because I literally couldn't deal with them anymore. That is how I got back on a treadmill. The girl who doesn't run ran today. Figuratively ran away from my kids for 30 minutes.

And now I know why a ton of women get into running after they have kids. IT FELT SO GOOD. My puny 1.08 miles of straight running felt good. And then after I grabbed Mills a quick snack and got back on the treadmill it didn't feel as hot. I still didn't cramp up, but I itched. Itched all down my legs. Wha? Itching? So as I ran to a little Calvin Harris I googled itching legs while running. And these are some experts from different sites: 

"In some cases, itchy legs might be a symptom of circulation issues -- if you haven't exercised in a while, your body might not be used to it and have trouble pumping blood to your extremities because the capillaries have collapsed slightly. The process of expanding these capillaries can give the sensation of tingling or itching in your legs. Just a few sessions of regular exercise should put a stop to the itching."

"The most common cause of itchy legs is actually because of what's happening inside the skin, not on it. When we exercise, the millions of tiny capillaries and arteries inside our muscles expand rapidly because of the demand for more blood. If we're fit, these capillaries remain open allowing maximum blood passage, but, when unfit and inactive, they tend to collapse, allowing only minimal blood passage (which, by the way, is fine for a sedentary person). The expansion of the capillaries causes adjacent nerves to send impulses to the brain, which then reads the sensation as an itch."

Ahhaaaahaaa! My favorite (and most motivating) line is, "which, by the way, is fine for a sedentary person." There is just something about the word sedentary. And this gal isn't going to be it any more. I ended around two miles, which makes me happy. I ran a straight 1.08 today, Wednesday I shoot for 1.58.