Life has been so busy! Holidays! Changing jobs! The darn fitness center is shut down until January! Yet, somehow I've managed to keep up with my fitness! It's a challenge to come up with something effective to do at home with limited equipment but I love the progress I've made so I will not give up now!
No fitness center:
Ryan & I were so disappointed when we made our way to the fitness center and discovered that there is major construction going on throughout the fitness center & that all the doors were locked :-(
When I want something, I want it NOW & I don't want anything to stand in my way. So, after spending a minute or two pouting, I drove over to Walmart & bought some 15 lb. weights. They do not make up for access to the fitness center but they at least allow me to get some strength training in for the next month.
Running:
So now that I don't have access to the fitness center treadmill, I put on my running shoes & went OUTSIDE for some exercise. After taking a full three weeks off from running and easing back in to running in week 13, something came over me & I just wanted to run Run RUN!! So, I ran. I hit this mental breakthrough point in Week 15. You see, I really really really wanted to run the Dallas Half Marathon (more on that next week) but I have not been training at a half marathon level. I wanted to run the half so badly because 1) it's something I get to do with my sister - I love when we run races together 2) I want to do it annually - as in Every year 3) running feels so good lately and 4) the forecast predicted that the weather would be Perfect on race day. Considering I ran the half last year in rain, cold, wind with soppy shoes and a face so wet they started handing out Kleenex's, I figured I could handle 13.1 miles if all of those elements were Not in play. I was a little bit worried that I'd show up at the race & fail half way through so I did a test run with my wonderful sister. I ran/walked about 8.3 glorious miles with Elisa & decided "I'll go for it! I'll run the half!" A very important part of that 8.3 miles is that I took a break about halfway through to walk for a bit. I've always been of the mentality that there this huge difference between 8 miles and 5 miles plus 3 miles separated by a walk. I don't know why but I held myself to this completely arbitrary standard that a run should be just that, one long run with no slowing down. I am so glad that I finally overcame that hurdle & accepted that two relatively long runs separated by a short walk is just as good (if not better) for my body as one continuous run. There is no way I could have handled 8.3 miles of straight running. I have not been training at that level & I did not want to push myself so hard that I ended up injured again. I am so excited to get out there and start logging ridiculously long runs now that I ALLOW myself to slow down when my body asks for it. I have no idea why it took me so long to make that mental breakthrough but I think it will lead to many additional miles in my weekly check ins!
Week 14:
No fitness center:
Ryan & I were so disappointed when we made our way to the fitness center and discovered that there is major construction going on throughout the fitness center & that all the doors were locked :-(
When I want something, I want it NOW & I don't want anything to stand in my way. So, after spending a minute or two pouting, I drove over to Walmart & bought some 15 lb. weights. They do not make up for access to the fitness center but they at least allow me to get some strength training in for the next month.
Running:
So now that I don't have access to the fitness center treadmill, I put on my running shoes & went OUTSIDE for some exercise. After taking a full three weeks off from running and easing back in to running in week 13, something came over me & I just wanted to run Run RUN!! So, I ran. I hit this mental breakthrough point in Week 15. You see, I really really really wanted to run the Dallas Half Marathon (more on that next week) but I have not been training at a half marathon level. I wanted to run the half so badly because 1) it's something I get to do with my sister - I love when we run races together 2) I want to do it annually - as in Every year 3) running feels so good lately and 4) the forecast predicted that the weather would be Perfect on race day. Considering I ran the half last year in rain, cold, wind with soppy shoes and a face so wet they started handing out Kleenex's, I figured I could handle 13.1 miles if all of those elements were Not in play. I was a little bit worried that I'd show up at the race & fail half way through so I did a test run with my wonderful sister. I ran/walked about 8.3 glorious miles with Elisa & decided "I'll go for it! I'll run the half!" A very important part of that 8.3 miles is that I took a break about halfway through to walk for a bit. I've always been of the mentality that there this huge difference between 8 miles and 5 miles plus 3 miles separated by a walk. I don't know why but I held myself to this completely arbitrary standard that a run should be just that, one long run with no slowing down. I am so glad that I finally overcame that hurdle & accepted that two relatively long runs separated by a short walk is just as good (if not better) for my body as one continuous run. There is no way I could have handled 8.3 miles of straight running. I have not been training at that level & I did not want to push myself so hard that I ended up injured again. I am so excited to get out there and start logging ridiculously long runs now that I ALLOW myself to slow down when my body asks for it. I have no idea why it took me so long to make that mental breakthrough but I think it will lead to many additional miles in my weekly check ins!
Week 14:
- 4.9 miles walking
- 4.7 running
- 1 hour 35 minutes of strength training
Week 15:
- 3.6 miles walking
- 12. 5 miles running
- 2 hours 25 minutes of strength training
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