So it didn’t really get better after my last post. As you can see, it’s been over a month and I’m finally blogging! I started behind in March and did not make a lot of time to run in the beginning of the month. My diet was not consistent nor my exercise. It’s the typical reason as usual. Too much time at work and not enough energy to run. I started to worry on how it was going to affect my body. I figured that once I started running again, I had to start all over. So when I finally began, I began with a new motivation. I bought an iNano to see if it would help me focus on the running. I also wanted something to track my running and the cool little electric nano has the Nike Fitness application. My first run was on March 20th (like I said earlier, I was very behind). I didn’t have any music yet in my nano. I only timed myself and measured my distance. My first run was not as bad as I thought it would be. I ran about half an hour with some stopping here and there but managed to not run out of breath so easily. It felt good to run again and I pushed myself not to stop so easily. It was a nice little run to start with. The next run I did was on the 22nd and ran for another 3o minutes. The runs were good and I was managing to run about four miles. The problem that I still was not running a lot. I was only averaging about 2 to 3 runs a week.
I ended the end of March weighting about the same as the prior month. My finishing weight was 171.2 lbs. Not good enough. I know it’s not about my weight but more of what I’m doing. But I also know that I have not made much progress.
Starting April, William started running with me. Keep in mind that he just finished his third Los Angeles Marathon. He needed time to recover and was not running with me when I started in March. We started running right after work down York Blvd. Two miles there and two miles back. However it’s been a challenge for me because as soon as I hit about one mile of running, I have to go to the bathroom! I’ve blogged about this before but it’s getting very frustrating now because it’s a very uncomfortable feeling and I’m having to stop at McDonald’s to go to the bathroom. We just finished the first week of April and I’m only running about four miles. I need to step it up and be more aggressive or else I’m never going to keep up!
So what I have done is that William has signed us up for the Merrel Down and Dirty taking place this coming Sunday the 15th at Castaic Lake. It is 10 kilometers of pure hell for me because I’m going to be running hills! Something I have not worked on. Just this morning I went to meet with a friend for a hike. So to practice, I rode my bicycle to her house. I did not realized that she lived up a hills so I was pedaling and sweating for the last two miles to her. Once I got there we took a hike around her hill and it felt great. This week I plan to continue running and change my route to where there are more hills.
I’m also going to be blogging more. I’ve noticed that it helps to write and track my challenges for the whole world to see.
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