No warm-up. (It’s already plenty warm today, thank you very much.) 7.0 mph for 40 minutes. 3.5 mph for 5 minutes. 7.5 mph for 10 minutes. 4.0 mph for 5 minutes to round out the hour.

So that’s a little over 6.5 miles in 1 hour. Not bad, I say, for a start. I’d planned to go a steady 7.0 for the full hour, but got a stitch in my side around 35 minutes into the run that continued to get worse, so I needed to walk and rest for a bit.

Thanks to my friend “Mike R.”:http://www.runamok.net/ for all the running tips and advice. This fellow has nine marathons (and in highly respectable times, too) under his belt, so he has to know what he’s talking about, I’d assume. I’m going to keep a log of my progress here, so feel free to be inspired or uninspired or what have you.