Personal Record

So remember how I was going to exercise every day this week? Well that sorta flopped, so today I decided I was going to run two miles to make up for it. And guess what? I DID IT!!!!!! It took me 29 minutes and 54 seconds so it was slow, but I did it at a pretty steady pace and even sprinted the very end because my body wanted to quit around 1.8 miles and I had a mini-epic battle between my body and my brain, and luckily my brain won because no WAY was I gonna quit when I was that close, so I sped up to get there faster :)

I still can't really believe I just did that because that is officially the farthest I have ever run in my entire life. For reals.

Fittingly, the song that came on my ipod right after I finished was Feelin' Good by Muse. So perfect. And now I feel like doing a victory dance, but I can't because my body has become jello.

So even though I can't move, this is what I'm doing on the inside:

:)

Intervals

Okay, I know I said slow and steady wins the race, but slow and steady is also sometimes boring. Sometimes I like to sprint and then slow jog and then sprint and then slow jog etc., which I did today, and it was fun, because I like to sprint. However by knees do not like it when I sprint but that is another story. Anywho, today I did 1.25 miles with intervals and then another mile on my airdyne bike to cool off. And that is how I traveled 2.25 miles without moving more than 4 feet so that was cool.

In other news, my goal for this week is to work out every day. I might not run every day, but I'll do that at least 3 or 4 days and the other days I will ride my bike or walk or do jumping jacks or something. But I just think that when I don't work out one day it's too easy not to the next day, so I'm going to try to do at least a little bit every day. I'll let you know how that goes in a week :)

In conclusion, this is my favorite thing from Pinterest of the day:

Good thing I always look awful after I work out eh? :)

Jelly Legs

Today I decided I wanted to do some uphill work, because as I have mentioned before, my body has no uphill muscles. So I did a half a mile on my treadmill with just regular jogging, and then I ran up and down my staircase 10 times. My staircase has 16 steps and so with 10 times up and down I ran 160 steps up and 160 down. Now my legs feel like jelly.

That is all. :)

MILE...for reals this time!

It turns out the tortoise was right, who knew?

Today I decided I was going to do a whole mile without stopping or slowing down. I figured out that one of my problems is treadmills are boring, so I try to run fast to get it over with and then I get worn out really quickly. So this time I decided to run slower and keep the same pace the whole time. I also decided that I would listen to Adele to make the treadmill less boring. And it worked!! I didn't feel like I was going to fall over and die or anything. In fact I felt so good that I did a mile on my bike after I was done running. And since I wasn't going too fast my breathing was pretty steady so I could mouth along the words to Set Fire To the Rain instead of gasping for breath, which is always a plus:)

Anywho, now I have to go write a paper. Bye!

P.S. SkipperJovi was right, running does make you energized! I thought I would need a nap or something after my run but really I just feel like doing all of my homework and my laundry and cleaning my house! Okay maybe I'll just stick to the homework for now, but still :) Thanks for the tip Jovi!

Slacking is lame

Okay so the last couple days I have been a slacker with my running. Which is silly because it is way too soon in my running journey to be slacking. But if it makes you feel any better, I did work out, I just didn't run. My work out consisted of about 25 sit-ups, 10 push-ups, a bunch of squats and lunges, and other stuff like that. It really wasn't that much but it left me crazy sore because I never use those muscles :P

Anywho, it was nice to work some muscles, but I still was being lame by not running. In my defence I had a LOT of homework ;) So I promise to repent and run real good tomorrow :) I also will maybe try jogging uphill, to work my uphill muscles which are currently much dilapidated.

That is all.

Peace out. :)

Zapatos

Finding comfy athletic shoes has been kind of a problem for me over the course of my lifetime. I have no arches in my feet and so I need shoes with arches. Unfortunately I hate shoes that have arches, which is kind of a problem for me. Then one day, very recently, I found these:

And I thought, hey, those look cool, so I tried them on. It was kind of like trying on clouds. And they were on sale for 20 bucks!! So I bought them, and they are wonderful. They are very comfy and light weight, and when I wear them I just want to bounce around in them. Also, as an added bonus, they don't give me shin splints when I run. Woo!

In short, I love them. They are not for distance running, and they probably won't last for a super long time, but for the level I am at right now, they are perfect.

That is all. :)

Mile...almost

Guess who just ran an (almost) mile! Me!! Okay I can't count is as running a whole mile because I had to slow down and walk for about a tenth of a mile in the middle, but other than that I ran the whole way, (assuming you use my friend CowboyChaser's definition of running as going faster than walking, and since I agree wholeheartedly with this definition, I'm going to count what I just did as running :).

I was planning on running 3/4 of a mile today, but when I got up to around .7 miles (thank heaven for the distance tracker on treadmills, it makes it easier on my weird math brain), I remembered that CowboyChaser challenged me to a mile today, and I decided to do it, so I did it. Yay! It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It hurt at first because I was sore but after a while it was like whatever. :) Actually my heart started to freak out a little bit around 8.5 miles, but I just slowed down a little (but still jogging) and kept going till I finished. It was pretty fun.

In other news, I love pinterest, because it shows me things like this to make me feel better about myself: