When you first start a running program it’s more important to focus on how long you are running vs how far you’ve gone. After running for specific time periods during early January, I graduated to distance. This meant that instead of setting out on a 15, 20, or 30 minute run – I needed to run 2, 3, 4, miles etc. etc. There are a few websites that you can look up pre-measured distances and then run them in order to get your mileage in. The problem with some of these “pre mapped” runs is that you don’t know how far you have gone while you are running. For example, there is a great 5 mile run right by my house. But at the time I found it I only needed to run 4 miles. Short of driving the route with my car, the only way to know (for this example) where the 2 mile turn-around is – would be to use a small GPS device or an app for my iPhone that tracks distance. Continue reading →