Winning! (I just love Charlie Sheen!)

Week’s Workout:

M:  4.5 miles

T:  3 miles

W: Biggest Loser/Kinect

R:  4.5 miles

S: Bootcamp (maybe L ) & definitely 7 miles!!!

So last week I didn’t do so well.  I did well on my diet and I ran 4 times last week, but I didn’t do my long run.  Therefore I am definitely doing my 7 mile-r…and we will see about boot camp.  I want to go to boot camp so badly – but asking my husband to watch the kids for basically half the day (after spending all last Saturday buying our new car) is asking a lot.   

Anyway last Saturday I caved at the diet and the soda.  I got to work early – 8:00 – and nothing was working.  And my lovely boss decided to make a tower of Oreo’s on my desk to mess with me…and I have no will power.  And after I succumbed to peer pressure – I just kept going.  I ate 8 Oreo’s short of a whole bag on Saturday and a HUGE Dr. Pepper.  To try and compensate – I didn’t have dinner…but Sunday when I work up with the scale going up .8 – I said screw it all I’ll start on Monday.  So today I am starting fresh again…  My husband says I can no longer go without soda because I am too on edge and too cranky and why did I start on the week we decided to buy a car – so stressful! 

So I got my first two magazines of Runner’s World and I loved reading all about running and different techniques.  Did I tell you I love reading all these blogs?  I feel like I learn so much from every one of you and I can’t believe that I have been running at least 3 times a week since July 2010 – That’s   a record for me.  I can’t wait until my year mark.  That’s less than 4 months away!  I’ve never stuck with some sort of program this long.  I had the realization of how far I had come today.  I was kind of feeling a little depressed that I didn’t get my 7 miles in and how I feel like I’ve been at 6 miles for the longest time and haven’t made any progression…but then my coworker informed me that there was a time running 8 minutes was hard.  And its so true.  I find that I compare myself sometimes to those blogs I read –those people doing 10-20 milers with no problems at very fast paces and I sometimes wonder if I will ever get to that point…but I have to remember I’m still starting out. Yes I probably haven’t pushed myself as much as others, haven’t been as motivated for the longest time to add on mileage – haven’t ran as much in a week as I should…and those are just a few reasons why I am still at this point…but just thinking that in 8 months I have gone from running 3 minutes at a time would kill me to being able to run for an hour and 12 minutes without dying.  Even having the thought in my head that I will be ok during my half marathon is a far cry from where I was just a few months ago.  I can’t wait to find out where I will be in 8 months!  How much further along I will be with my running.