I really felt it today. My poor eating habits, that is.
Mind over matter. Where there's a will there's a way. Get the drift..... I KNOW what I should eat, when I should eat, how I can manage this schedule and why I should be doing it all. The trouble is actually doing it. Why is it so hard to do the right thing?
After breaking these bad eating habits (usually takes about a week or so) I feel FA NOMINAL!! The seven days of telling myself, "no you do not need that bag of popcorn" is what I am afraid of.
Well I'm just going to have to grow the hell up. If deep down I truly want to run for a cause, achieve my goals and use my ability to support others I MUST RE - FRAME FROM POPPING!!!
Despite it all I still ran but I knew I couldn't last must longer.
Distance: 9 miles
Time: 78:34 minutes
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Day 8:
So not loving trying to plan a last minute trip to the Boston Marathon. I am a grad student people! There's no way I can afford to stay at a $500/night hotel!! Ugh....
But, at least I got my run in today. Early as all hell this morning. When my alarm went off at 6am, the thought of putting on my garmin and waiting for it to "locate satellites" was almost enough to keep in bed for another hour before work! Relax, breathe and get the hell up was exactly how I talked myself into it. Let me tell you the power of self-talk is remarkable. The feeling of accomplishment even-more-so.
I have ran for at least 4miles for nine days straight. (Day 1 was really last monday @ 9miles!)
I am so proud of myself and ready for so much more. Now, I just need to get to Boston!
Distance: 4.25 miles
Time: 35:53 minutes
So not loving trying to plan a last minute trip to the Boston Marathon. I am a grad student people! There's no way I can afford to stay at a $500/night hotel!! Ugh....
But, at least I got my run in today. Early as all hell this morning. When my alarm went off at 6am, the thought of putting on my garmin and waiting for it to "locate satellites" was almost enough to keep in bed for another hour before work! Relax, breathe and get the hell up was exactly how I talked myself into it. Let me tell you the power of self-talk is remarkable. The feeling of accomplishment even-more-so.
I have ran for at least 4miles for nine days straight. (Day 1 was really last monday @ 9miles!)
I am so proud of myself and ready for so much more. Now, I just need to get to Boston!
Distance: 4.25 miles
Time: 35:53 minutes
Monday, March 29, 2010
Another thankful day
Day 7:
Kickin back with my feet up in the sun on this gorgeous day in Beverly Hills! My run was great again today, could feel myself smiling.
Checking out the sites for Chicago and Boston Marathons. Booking my flight to see the excitement and energy of Boston! I cannot wait to run the streets!
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 60:13 minutes
Kickin back with my feet up in the sun on this gorgeous day in Beverly Hills! My run was great again today, could feel myself smiling.
Checking out the sites for Chicago and Boston Marathons. Booking my flight to see the excitement and energy of Boston! I cannot wait to run the streets!
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 60:13 minutes
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Who needs a day off!
Day 6:
Beautiful sunshiney day in Cali this afternoon. My run was awesome in the 86 degree weather! Oh how I LOVE the heat. Heard its gonna be 60 and raining on Wednesday....damn. I will, of course still run.
Heard back from two inspirational runners today. Can't wait to pick their brains. Hopefully I won't have to wait too long and I will be hitting the pavement i states I've yet to pounce.
Distance: 4 miles
Time: 33:31 minutes
Beautiful sunshiney day in Cali this afternoon. My run was awesome in the 86 degree weather! Oh how I LOVE the heat. Heard its gonna be 60 and raining on Wednesday....damn. I will, of course still run.
Heard back from two inspirational runners today. Can't wait to pick their brains. Hopefully I won't have to wait too long and I will be hitting the pavement i states I've yet to pounce.
Distance: 4 miles
Time: 33:31 minutes
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Keepin' it Real
Day 5:
Very, very, VERY important to also include some interval and weight training into your exercise regime. I can't tell you how much a difference I can feel in all of my runs when I include just two days of weight training. My speed increases, my stamina lasts longer and I literally feel my metabolism increase even hours after I've set down the dumbbell!
So this week I did legs on Tuesday and full body today! Amazing.....aghhh, not so fast.... I still included my run!
Distance: 4.5 miles
Time: 35:12 minutes
Very, very, VERY important to also include some interval and weight training into your exercise regime. I can't tell you how much a difference I can feel in all of my runs when I include just two days of weight training. My speed increases, my stamina lasts longer and I literally feel my metabolism increase even hours after I've set down the dumbbell!
So this week I did legs on Tuesday and full body today! Amazing.....aghhh, not so fast.... I still included my run!
Distance: 4.5 miles
Time: 35:12 minutes
Friday, March 26, 2010
The running society
Day 4:
So I met a fellow runner today sitting in starbucks working on my thesis for grad school on what motivates a runner to run. She was told never to run again after high school. She has lime disease. She has a condition that causes her body to stroke after giving birth, she just had a baby a few months ago. She has ran three marathons and is training to run in San Fran this summer.
INSPIRING! She expressed how her motivation was taken to a whole new level by running for the AIDS Marathon cause. We chatted for awhile. I believe we all are running for a cause, some of us just haven't found what it is yet.
Anywhere in the world runners connect on a level that only a runner can relate to. It's like we're all in sync, we all "get it". It's a group I am blessed to have discovered.
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 42:23 minutes
So I met a fellow runner today sitting in starbucks working on my thesis for grad school on what motivates a runner to run. She was told never to run again after high school. She has lime disease. She has a condition that causes her body to stroke after giving birth, she just had a baby a few months ago. She has ran three marathons and is training to run in San Fran this summer.
INSPIRING! She expressed how her motivation was taken to a whole new level by running for the AIDS Marathon cause. We chatted for awhile. I believe we all are running for a cause, some of us just haven't found what it is yet.
Anywhere in the world runners connect on a level that only a runner can relate to. It's like we're all in sync, we all "get it". It's a group I am blessed to have discovered.
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 42:23 minutes
Thursday, March 25, 2010
And the Base keeps runnin'!
Day 3:
Told myself I wasn't gonna do it today....only 3 miles, easy....take it easy for today.....
YA RIGHT! This self-talk technique doesn't work for me. This proves the mentality of a runner. It is a mind game. I've got to learn how to mentally prepare for a marathon before I even begin to train or I'll never make it.
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 59:23 minutes
Told myself I wasn't gonna do it today....only 3 miles, easy....take it easy for today.....
YA RIGHT! This self-talk technique doesn't work for me. This proves the mentality of a runner. It is a mind game. I've got to learn how to mentally prepare for a marathon before I even begin to train or I'll never make it.
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 59:23 minutes
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
And I'm Off...
Day 2:
Hate to say it but DAMN it felt good to run today! There's something to be said about risin' an runnin'!! Sometimes it sucks, and sometimes, just sometimes its a high like no other. Yes, I'm speaking of the runner's high. You know the one, where people are looking at you in astonishment because your smiling as your hauling ass up that hill! That was me today, loving every minute of it.
Now, who wants to get high!?!
Distance:7 miles
Time: 59:44minutes
Hate to say it but DAMN it felt good to run today! There's something to be said about risin' an runnin'!! Sometimes it sucks, and sometimes, just sometimes its a high like no other. Yes, I'm speaking of the runner's high. You know the one, where people are looking at you in astonishment because your smiling as your hauling ass up that hill! That was me today, loving every minute of it.
Now, who wants to get high!?!
Distance:7 miles
Time: 59:44minutes
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Yes, YES! you can!
Not sure where to begin in this new endeavor of the blogging world...
I'm a runner, well at least I thought I was a runner. My 30 or so miles I log per week is nothing compared to the 26.2 accomplishment in one day by the 25,000 participants of the LA Marathon this past Sunday, March 21, 2010. All shapes, sizes, ages, races and willful participants PAID to travel the new course presented by the LA Marathon this 25th year, from the Stadium-to-the-Sea. Paid to feel the pain, paid to be a needle in a haystack, paid to accomplish. I believe deep within my soul that everyone can partake in this activity. In a wheelchair you say, the sight of the handcyclists crossing the start line and still going strong in Mile 18, well words cannot express this sight. Now, please complain about your bad knees, back, ankle....blah blah blah. Be thankful that you can feel the pain.
I am honored to have been a witness of this inaugural event. To each any every participant, I thank you for the many moments of awe, happiness and inspiration.
So, let me reframe from expressing my feeling as if I am not a runner. I am. I may have yet to cross the finish line, but I vow from this moment on that I will run at the least a mile each day for 365 days. No matter how tired, sore, busy, hungry....
Let this year, Day 1 March 23, 2010, begin a new chapter in my life. I will run, I will speak out loud about it, I will try to get the masses to follow! Do not tell me you can't, because YES! YOU CAN!
I'm a runner, well at least I thought I was a runner. My 30 or so miles I log per week is nothing compared to the 26.2 accomplishment in one day by the 25,000 participants of the LA Marathon this past Sunday, March 21, 2010. All shapes, sizes, ages, races and willful participants PAID to travel the new course presented by the LA Marathon this 25th year, from the Stadium-to-the-Sea. Paid to feel the pain, paid to be a needle in a haystack, paid to accomplish. I believe deep within my soul that everyone can partake in this activity. In a wheelchair you say, the sight of the handcyclists crossing the start line and still going strong in Mile 18, well words cannot express this sight. Now, please complain about your bad knees, back, ankle....blah blah blah. Be thankful that you can feel the pain.
I am honored to have been a witness of this inaugural event. To each any every participant, I thank you for the many moments of awe, happiness and inspiration.
So, let me reframe from expressing my feeling as if I am not a runner. I am. I may have yet to cross the finish line, but I vow from this moment on that I will run at the least a mile each day for 365 days. No matter how tired, sore, busy, hungry....
Let this year, Day 1 March 23, 2010, begin a new chapter in my life. I will run, I will speak out loud about it, I will try to get the masses to follow! Do not tell me you can't, because YES! YOU CAN!
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