Focusing

Well the wedding has come and gone. The dress not only fit but it was too big (but it was too big in the chest, not the waist, unfortunately). The wedding & bachelorette party weekends sort of threw off my running, but I managed to get my long runs in both weeks. This week I’m completely back on track. Here’s what I’ve done so far

-Monday: Ran 3.5 miles + 1 mile warm-up/cool-down + weight training (I’m doing Body by Glamour’s weight training program)

-Tuesday: Cycling + 15 minutes on the stair machine

-Wednesday: 2 miles (in 20 minutes!) + weight training

-Thursday: was too sore to cycle and was not going to work out at all — but I did! I ran 2.5 miles and biked/stair machined for 15 minutes.

The rest of the week:

-Friday: weight training + some cardio

-Saturday: LONG run (5 miles again)

Since I started running I have wanted two things: (1) to look like a runner when I run. I think I look like a fat person trying to jog. I know that’s pretty demeaning, but I am not built like a runner, and the reason I want to be is because I absolutely LOVE how runners look. I want to look that way because I like it — not because I care what anyone else thinks (although I’ll take that too ) and (2) to be fast. I have been running for over two years. I will be the first to admit though that my running has been anything but consistent. I am really good for 3-4 months at a time and then I stop for some reason or another. The sad part is that right when I get to the end of the 3-4 months I’m finally doing good. This is all related to being fast because I have recently admitted to myself (I don’t know what’s taken me so long) that the reason I am not fast is because I am just carrying around too much wait AND everytime I stop running for whatever reason I put the weight back on. This has made me realize that I just will not be fast until I stick to running and eating well and until then I have to accept being slow. This morning I reached a milestone — I am back to pre-meeting Jason weight. I was doing really well right before I met him but totally fell off the wagon for the first 3 months of our relationship. However, as this blog indicates the last 2 have been much better SO the point of this was, I need to lose some weight before I run faster and really I can’t think of any better motivation to lose weight. I will run faster. I really would love if I could drop 20 pounds between now and the Mini Marathon. The ONLY reason (and it’s a big one) that I think this may not happen is the cruise. I do plan on running on the cruise, but frankly I also plan on eating all the delicious food (I’m certainly paying for it so why not?). We’ll see how much that effects the overall weight loss goals.

In other news, as part of my training, I signed up for two races:

Equal Justice Foundation’s 5K on March 16, 2008

Pepsi’s International Race to Stop the Silence 10k on April 13, 2008

Not only are both perfect in my training schedule (which actually calls for me to do both a 5k and a 10k at about the same time as I’m doing them) but they are both for good causes

~ by jaimielyn on February 29, 2008.