10K

Oh hey. Its been over 2 months. Boo. If there's anyone out there, still reading, thanks for sticking with me.
If you read over at Walk With Me, you may know that I signed up for a 10K last week. I have one more day of my first week of training. Here's how it has gone so far...

Thursday July 26: Decided I needed something to push me to get to the gym/workout...my good friend and workout buddy Trista suggests the 10K in Pocatello on September 1st. Coming off a pretty good workout, feeling good (and slightly overconfident in my abilities). I sign up as soon as I get home.

Friday July 27: My wonderful mother sends me a training schedule, and a wonderful email of encouragement. I get some supplies.

Monday July 30: I start training by going on my first timed (25 min) run outside. It sucked. It was hard. I am bawling 20 minutes into it. I'm not sure why I took a picture....I just wanted to document my misery, I guess.

Not cute. Not happy.

Tuesday July 31: I take the day off out of discouragement.
Wednesday August 1: I get back on the horse and go for another timed (25 min) run. This one is better. I finish out my run with no tears, just a red and splotchy face.
Thursday August 2: Strength training. Feeling pretty good.
Friday August 3: First mileaged based run....3 miles. My stomach is in knots, I say a prayer, take a workout supplement and hit the road. I finish exhausted, but smiling (and still red/splotchy faced).

I guess what I am trying to say, in too many words, is that everybody has strengths and weaknesses. My weakness is definitely running and I started from square one this week. But, it feels so good to do something that is so hard for me and to see improvement. I don't want to be on the elliptical my whole life, I want to accomplish things! I never understood why people would put their bodies through such hell to complete a marathon or iron man....but I think I'm beginning to.

I can do hard things!

4.21

4.21 miles in 55 minutes. Not bad if you ask a couch potato.

Happy Day! I have been to the gym the last 3 days in a row (well, excluding Sunday...but I don't count that as a "work out" day)! I have found that being registered to run in a race definitely motivates me to get my bum to the gym. I do not want to be dead last in a 5K....especially when my brothers (who are 13 and 9) run them.

My workouts have consisted of elliptical for 30-60 minutes and then a quick ab workout or water rowing session. Its been working good for me and I am feeling great!

I hope this sudden surge of motivation lasts!

How do you get your bum to the gym?

Slacking

Wow. I've been a slacker. But know this,

1). I know I've been on the ChangeOne phase of lunch for a long time now. Know that this is on purpose, I don't feel like I have mastered lunch yet....and there's no point moving on until I do.

2). My dad is sponsoring me to run in the Strawberry Days 5K. This is scary because...
          a. I don't really enjoy running
          b. I'm not very fast at running
However, I think this will be great motivation and get me into the gym a lot more often. Anyone wanna run it with me? :)

Just a little motivation....

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse."

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success

"Old habits die hard. But the good new is, they do die."

-Jillian Michaels

 

Lets get real for a minute...

I have lost all motivation.

Ok, ok...not all motivation, just a lot. I'm a little discouraged; not because I'm doing all this work and I'm not getting results....I honestly wish that was the case, because then being frustrated would be justified.  But no, I am not doing much and hoping things will just magically fix themselves and I will wake up a size 2. 

We all know that's never going to happen.

Which is a bummer.

If things are going to change I need to get my butt to the gym and put down the glass of chocolate milk (did you know 2 cups of chocolate milk is almost 300 calories!?! talk about dream crusher). Looking on a brighter, more positive side...I am loving myfitnesspal! It is really putting into perspective which foods contain which outrageous amounts of calories (chocolate milk) and which foods are great (grapefruit). It has been really eye opening to see where my calories are mostly coming from and where they should be coming from. I am definitely going to keep logging my food there- it is doing so much more for me than my original food journal was.

Thanks for attending my pity party! :) Stay tuned for a new guest poster!

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