Haven't written for a little while. I'm up to running 8 min at a time for a total of 27 running minutes. I'm feeling good when I run a lot less tired. I am frustrated because I am still so slow. I run somewhere between an 11-12 minute mile. This is frustrating since my Mom can walk a 13 minute mile. I would really like to get closer to 10 min miles for the 5k race. I want to go to a track and see what kind of time I can get on just running a mile flat out. I would think I could get somewhere between 8-9 minutes but I'm not sure. Maybe I need to be taking my 3 mile pace a little faster. But I don't know how much more I could do without feeling overexerted. The back of my calves have started to plague me while I take my running breaks while running and then when I first start running. My right leg has pains all over it surprisingly my knee hasn't given me that much problems. Well it is almost Christmas. We already celebrated christmas with my family. It was fun there were a lot of presents.