Learning to be a runner, week 1

OK...I successfully did one mile, three times, and feel OK about it. Pretty good about it, actually. It turns out if you listen to songs that are about 5 minutes long, you can warm up and then run a mile over the course of three songs. That seems to make it not bad at all – run for two songs and then you're done.

I've got a bit of a cold right now, but I'm getting on a train shortly, and headed for a few days off in the great state Commonwealth of Massachusetts (we need a word that rhymes well with commonwealth).

If the lungs hold up through the sniffling, I think we're going to up it to a mile and half Saturday, and see how we feel Sunday.

We'll let you know how that goes.