Chasing away Chubby

I stayed up late last night…well if you can call 11:00 late, looking up 5K races in my area. There is one Nov. 3rd in Lexington that I am seriously thinking of doing. There is one in my hometown in a couple weeks, but I am doing the fun walk with my kids, plus I am not in competitive condition yet. There is another in the town I work in later in Sept, but I still don’t feel like I will be ready, and I don’t want people I know, to see me struggling along in my first 5K. So the November one seems ideal. There will also be alot of people in it, so I will not have to worry about coming in last!! So I went to bed with the fact that this morning was the 20 minute, no walking run!!! I woke up at 3:00 AM worried about it! The wimp was already perched firmly on my shoulder….”You can’t RUN for 20 minutes! Are you crazy? You have a cold, and you are sore form Tae-bo and your shin hurts, TOM is coming, and your bloated, and did I mention that you have a cold, and is that a headache I feel coming on?” Darned Wimp! Got back to sleep and a minute later (that’s what it felt like) the alarm went off…5:25. UGH! So I am up at 5:35 and get the kids together and out the door to Mom’s. I hit the pavement at 6:10. The sun wasn’t even up yet!

I walked for 5 minutes. My plan was to run the hill first off so I wouldn’t have to do it tired. But even after walking my 5 minute warm up and stretching…I still did not feel warmed up. So I walked to the top of the hill and started running from there. I always hit a “wall” about 200 yards in. It’s like my body suddenly screams “What the hell are you doing?” and tries to stop me. It even did it to me in High school when I was in excellent shape! But I know to run past the wall and it quickly goes away. I refuse to allow myself to look at the time. I usually check a few minutes in, but I wouldn’t allow myself to check until I had run a full lap on the trail. About half way through the wimp is screaming in my ear. I just ignore her and tell myself…”Run all of this and you will be a real runner!” So I keep going. So I get to the dreaded hill! UGH! So I tell myself, work the hill…you will get up it faster and the pain will be over quicker, which is exactly what I did. It took a minute or two but I conquered the hill! I was feeling a little dizzy at the top, but my mind says “keep going!” So I did. By this point the “wimp” had been successfully left behind. I look at the watch…Please be 10 minutes in…please… I look….9 minutes….UGH!!! I am faster then I think. I will be happy for that one day I presume. So I run on, down the other side, and back around. Look at my watch before I get to the hill again. HOLY COW! I still have 4 minutes left! Since I got dizzy after the first hill run I allowed myself the luxury of turning around and running the flat again and avoiding the hill. (I know I am a wimp!) I finished the 20 minutes and could have danced I was so happy! I know that if I can run 20 minutes without stopping that I can run just about any distance!

Plan today: Stay on plan. Work out 25 more minutes after work. Weight is still stuck on 213. It’s TOM doing it to me! I am still averaging a pound loss so I should shut up and be happy I guess. 2 down would have been nice though. I have to work a 10 hour day today. Oh well, I will get lots done! Well, I am off to do it. Love to all!

Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by lodyangel
Filed under: exercise