Dog Tired

The plan was to grab the dog leash and take off. So the first couple days I did that. Then I decided that I wanted a little more. Charged up my iPod and away I went. I found that a passion for classical style music doesn't allow for much calorie burning. My next step was to load up some faster paced music. Yay Britney! :D
I set my iPod on the Pop Princess, grabbed Run's leash and headed out the door. My poor dog, two blocks from the house, gazed at me with his big brown eyes, pleading for me to slow down. There is a pace that I hit as I walked around my normal route, that made him pant and slow up, pull back a little, as we walked. The dog who usually dragged me for my walks was falling behind. Three quarters of way around my track my muscles ached, my breathing was heavier, I was sweating, and I was listening to the same song for the 4th time in a row. I realised in that moment that if I could walk to the beat of her song for the last few blocks, and keep that pace up I would feel like a superstar. I did it, and I did feel amazing. The next day I did the same thing, warming up with the fast paced song from yesterday and then working up to an even faster song and pushed myself and Rundle again. Today he was ready for it, he slowed a bit but pushed as hard as I did. My legs were stiff for weeks, the walking made my legs burn and lungs ache but at the same time all I could think was the old "no pain, no gain". I tried to get out at least three days a week, and sometimes I was able to get in four days.
Rundle and I picked a route and stuck to it. We mapped it on livestrong.com and discovered our regular loop was 3.32 miles. At the top of our game Rundle and I finished the loop in 25minutes. I made 20 minutes, only once though. 25 was our goal daily, and I busted my butt speed walking to hit our goal regularly. When we did the math we discovered that by walking our route in 25 minutes we were basically going 12km/hr. Felt pretty good to know that my power walks basically were as fast as some people walk... maybe I can be fit. Huh. Who knew?