Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Truthful Tuesday

I've been known to make terrible life choices on occasion. The most recent being to sign up for half marathon number 7. It's not until October, so training time is aplenty. Which is good, because I want to finish under 2:15. Seriously. This is an unattainable goal. I've run two races under that time. Of course the other four were more around the 2:30 mark... but still. It's attainable. We'll see how training goes I guess. My reason for the lofty goal is that for this race, if you beat the spectator train (which will arrive at the finish in 2 hours and 15 minutes) you get an extra prize or medal (to be determined). I like extra stuff. This is the first year for this race, and it sounds super fun. Plus it's one town over from me, so it's also local. Win-win. Except for the having to run 13.1 miles part. You can check it out here if you want to run through CT with me in the fall: http://steamtrainhalf.com/

But that's not my confession today. It's just the precursor. Since I have to lose a solid 25 lbs. AND my company is currently hosting a biggest loser competition, I have started back to running three days a week. I'm easing into it VERY SLOWLY, by way of the Couch to 5K program. That's what I used to start running in the first place about 8 years ago. It's going great, I forgot how nice and easy it is at the beginning. I've been having a terrible time getting up early enough for my runs though. Which leads (finally) to today's confession:

I slept in my running clothes last night, so I could just hop on the treadmill without having to change first this morning.
a. PJ's? b. Running Clothes? c. Yoga clothes? D. All of the above
Only it's worse than that. My company started free yoga classes on Monday evenings, so I went to that. I wore this outfit. I didn't sweat or anything... And then proceeded to put my clothes on over top of it to drive home, check on and feed the ponies, and grocery shop. So basically, I wore my yoga clothes to bed, and then ran in them this morning. I ran inside on the treadmill, so I never faced the public. But still... I think that's pretty bad. And THAT my friends, is today's confession.

Do you have anything you need to get off your chest today? Feel free to talk about it in the comments!


4 comments:

  1. I like the permanent yoga attire! Always ready to exercise ;) I have a 5k coming up for st. pattys and I have really been sucking at running lately. With all my dumb course work this week I'm sucking at riding now too. I do not want to get on the scale any time soon D:

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    1. Course work! BOOOO!!! I hope you wrap that up and get back to pony time soon! (And maybe a little running, but not too much cause running is the absolute worst.)

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  2. I just ran yesterday for the second time since my sinus surgery in October... It was sad, but at least I did it! I'm sore today. I completely feel your pain!

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    1. Ugh. Running. Worst.
      Do you notice a difference in your breathing now though? I bet it's a lot different!

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