Race Week

Long time no check in, I am officially the worst blogger in the world.

It's CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME, although you'd never know it from the temperatures. It has been freezing here for the past week. All the cute spring clothes have been shoved back in the closet. Boo.

Anyways, training has been going surprisingly well. The race is on Saturday so i've started trailing off on my long runs and really just getting 20-30 minutes of intervals to try to get faster. It's working! In the last month i'd dropped almost 30 seconds off my time. My biggest fear on Saturday is having to run without my music. I've never done that before and i'm sure i won't miss it- but it's my clutch. We'll see how it goes.

Weigh in and measurements on Monday. Dear Jillian Michaels, let's see if i've managed to lose weight in all this soreness :)

Keeping the Motivation Up

Why is this so hard?

I try to do well with both my strength training and cardio, but then the weekends come and the boyfriend de-rails any attempt to maintain my schedule. To be fair- it's not his fault, we are in the middle of tax season and he and I almost never see each other. So when he has a rare day off on the weekend- all we want to do is hang out, be lazy on the couch, or go to brunch/lunch together.

This weekend was amazing. He had all Saturday off so we slept in (yay 8:30 am) and when we got up we were starving. I cannot work out after eating. I'm so jealous of people that do but I just cannot. #1 way to make me sick sick sick. Sunday = brunch and errands and before I know it, the day is just gone.

Sigh. I know i'm just complaining. Does anyone else feel like their life sometimes sabotages your efforts to be healthy? All in all it wasn't a completely lost weekend- my eating has been pretty much spot on- which makes me happy. I'm sticking to my 1200-1250 calories a day, so hopefully i'll start seeing results soon.

First things first

Hello!

Welcome to my world. I haven't blogged since college, and to be fair- this isn't a blog about my life, it is a blog to keep me accountable. First off, let me make something abundantly clear - I don't consider myself a "runner". No a runner is someone who i see who has an amazingly lean body, who doesn't consider a 6 mile run impossible, and someone who doesn't blink or freeze in fear when thinking about an upcoming 5k. I am none of these things.

I hated running growing up. Hated it even more in college because if I was running then I was usually late. About 6 months ago, my boyfriend started running on the treadmill at the gym, not one to be outdone, I tried the same, and hated it. Hated it with a passion, but I kept on. Suddenly one day I realized that I liked it. In fact, I REALLY liked it.

Flash forward till now. I signed up for the Cherry Blossom 10miler and training was going well, then suddenly I hit a wall. Running the 10miler scared me. One of my good friends is having her bacholorette party the night before, so i didn't think anything about switching from the 10miler to the 5k. Ever since then, training has gone downhill. Runs that I used to do well on are so tiring and i'm constantly sweating my time. My goal is complete this 5k in under 31 minutes- a reasonable goal, but now it is taking me closer to 40 minutes. It seems like the harder I try the worse I get.

So this leads me to the reason for this blog. I need to document my times, distances, and goals in a place where I don't have any judgement or scorn (DC runners can be really really snotty) and keep track and see my improvements- not just focus on the time aspect.

Here goes nothing!