Ran 2.5 miles, walked .5 miles
Arm exercises
Swam 2 laps
45 minute swim class
Day 4 of run every day challenge 05/10
Ran 2.65 miles
Swam .25 miles - 9 laps
Thursday was an amazing day exercise wise. I had banked on the fact that it was going to rain and I knew that Danielle and Deb would not be running if it rained. Because of this, I stayed up super late Wednesday night watching Nashville (and recovering from spin class earlier that night). I woke up at 3 am and was reassured because it was still raining; however, when I woke up at 5:15 am, it was not raining. The run was on. I had a hard time getting myself out of bed because I had it in my mind that I would be able to sleep in a little bit (side note: this is the LAST time I rely on the weather). I eventually managed to get myself out of bed and make my way to Derry. Although I went quite begrudgingly, I was happy that I went. Deb couldn't make it, so it was just Danielle and I. We ran 1.25 miles, walked for a couple of minutes, and then ran the rest of the way back.
After I was done, I was exhausted. I went home and took a nap before I had to start work. I had previously proclaimed that I was going to make Thursday night a relaxing night with an early bed time.. HA! Throughout the day, I started thinking about how I might like to take another spin class that night, even though I had just taken one the night before. I ended up posting a status on Facebook, and Jesse responded that she'd like to join me at the gym. We ended up meeting and doing a weight circuit -- hers was more full body and mine was focused on arms. Where I get so much exercise with my legs, the dietician that I am seeing said that I can focus on arms with some body weight only exercises for my legs (squats, lunges, etc). After our workout, we headed to the pool, where we swam 4 laps.. Well technically 2.. I was just educated by somebody much smarter than I that a lap is one full out and back. Once we were done swimming laps, we got to spend some time in the pool and sauna just catching up. When Jesse left around 8, I decided to go to spinning class.
I was about ten minutes into class when we were instructed to lower ourselves down and I'm not really quite sure what I did, but I like fell down. My feet were still strapped into the pedals and I couldn't move to lift myself up again. I.Was.Mortified!! Talk about embarrassing! A guy in the class had to come help me up, and when that didn't work, the instructor had to come over and help as well. Ugh! But, I got up, brushed myself off, got back on the bike and continued the rest of the class. Needless to say, for the rest of the class, whenever he told us to go down -- I stayed up. I'm going to try working towards going down like that -- but I'm just not there yet.
This morning when it came time to get out of bed to meet up with a few ladies from the MRTT running group, I had a hard time getting up. I laid in bed for about ten minutes talking myself into going. Finally, I got out of bed and rushed around to make it on time. I was happy because this was Sully's first run with me all week. I missed my running partner!! We all started off together and the two Courtneys and Shannon ended up running just a bit ahead of Tonya and myself. We ran for about a mile before we took a walking break. It was nice because my legs were burning after last night's workout, and we both wanted to stop at about half a mile, however we made a goal to push it to .75 miles and then again to one. After we walked for a little while, we turned around and started running back. When we were almost back to the parking lot, we stopped and asked somebody to take a picture of us.
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| MRTT Running Group |
I had originally planned on this being a running only day. But, earlier this afternoon I got a text from Dave (said friend who was smarter than me about the laps), and he told me to meet him at the Y to swim laps with him. He told me that I was going to do 9 laps, which is 1/4 of a mile - 18 lengths of the pool. When he said this, I was like yeah, right. But, I did agree to meet him. After I got home from work, I headed to Target to buy some goggles and then met up with him for 8. We were a little early, so we hung out in the hot tub. Swimming the laps was just hard. It's funny because you can think that you're in shape because you run, walk, bike.. whatever, but when you do something new, you find out just how not in shape you really are. I struggled with finding a rhythm with my strokes and breathing. Typically the first part of the lap was the easiest. I would swim strong out there and then struggle on the way back, despite the fact that I took a moment to catch my breath before heading back. Even though it was hard, we did it. I swam 1/4 of a mile. It's funny because I equate 1/4 of a mile to running or walking 1/4 of a mile, but it was definitely much harder and longer than running or walking it. It has been nice branching out and trying all of these new things lately. Dave even put the bug in my ear about doing a triathlon. Apparently there's this one in the fall where you swim 1/2 of a mile, bike 20 miles and then run 3 miles. Me do a triathlon? Maybe! If you had asked me even 6 months ago if I would consider this, I would have absolutely said no... but with spinning and now trying out the swimming - I think it's a definite possibility. I still need to focus on my running time - trying to get to under a 10 minute mile right now. I'm not really letting myself train above 3 miles until I get my speed to where I want it to be.
I was excited because last week, I set some exercise goals for myself, and I did well with meeting them. So, I figured that I'm going to try again for the next week. Here's my plan:
Saturday: Run and swim
Sunday: Run - This is technically a rest day, but since I'm doing the 30 day run every day challenge, I'm going to get out there and run a mile.
Monday: Run. PM. Spin class. Weights. Possibly swim.
Tuesday: Run. PM Spin class.
Wednesday: Run. PM Spin class. Weights.
Thursday: Run.
Friday: Run. Weights. Swim.
I also am going to start a daily squat and plank challenge. AND - I'm throwing away my scale.. well metaphorically speaking.. I've been jumping on the scale far too often lately. I did a 5 week no scale challenge last year, and I really enjoyed not hopping on the scale 1-2 times per day. So, I'm going off the scale for awhile starting Monday. I'm not sure for how long, but it will be a good few weeks. I'm thinking about weighing monthly, which is what I've read is all that you need to weigh yourself to check your progress. I want to use other measurements to track my progress.
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