no 7. Shaping up

So, I went for run no.2 last night.

I now have another couple of shaping up goals to aim for after Glastonbury now so I have to get this exercise thing moving;

• The boys' sister is getting married, abroad, in September.
• And he is off to work in India for about 6 weeks in October. Which means a weeks holiday, hopefully in Kerala, for me at the end of it.

Both of which will require me to wear nice clothes. And little dresses. My little dresses, that I love so much, don't really fit all that well right now.

Right onto the run;

• The lungs still felt like they wanted to escape.
• The knees started to hurt a little {but with their issues, that's was to be expected}

• But I made it a little bit further this time before I walked. The housemate kept telling me just a little further, just a little further, and it worked. And we went one road further before turning home. It did mean finishing the run on a long slope though.

We've set a 5k challenge for me in 8 weeks time, which I guess would be just before Glasto - which might work out just perfect. I don't want to be huffing and puffing my way through those fields again.

But I thought exercise was meant to make you healthier - I seem to have acquired a non-smoker's smoker's cough. Why is that people? Why?