June 6th 1st day of Official training

Training started @ 7:15 bright and Early Sat. ..I was so excited and ready to go!! We met up @ Soquel High with all the Santa Cruz Team N Training runners and race walkers, Wow there were a lot of members, that was so great to see! It looks like we have a more runners than race walkers, but, I was impressed to see so many people involved.
We met with are 2 awesome race walking coaches. They started off with basic stretches that led to some stretches I have never used before. We slowly started doing laps around the track (not so bad) than they started teaching us a whole new way of walking. It involved arm muscles, hip muscles, shin muscles ouch!! and I think I have a whole new muscle in my heel I never knew about. Walking has become a whole new adventure for me, I love it and yep I can feel it!! We started off mellow and started to progress in speed and worked are way up to 3 miles. The last mile they timed us and I came in at 16 minutes, not to bad for the 1st day.
I can't wait till my next training which is Tuesday.