Morning #2

I texted Erik this morning to make sure he was up. He said he was headed to the gym, I said I was about to run. He really went to the gym. I rolled over and slept for another hour. Dear Erik, I sincerly hope you're not reading this or you will not be happy.

XOXO

Morning #1

My alarm went off at 6:45 this morning, and I was not happy. I thought about not running as promised, but within seconds of turning off my alarm, Erik texted me to make sure I was awake. I got up. Threw some clothes on and out the door I went. It was pretty uneventful minus almost getting run over by a girl who failed to yield a stop sign. I barely made it three miles (not good, since the race is getting closer by the second), but I did feel pretty good about actually getting up this morning.

I got back to my house, showered, made a breakfast sandwich and some coffee and was off to work. As I sit here now, I don't feel the least bit sore, I guess maybe I should push myself harder tomorrow.

XOXO

I Promise

So Erik and I made a promise tonight that we would get up every morning this week and run before work. Let's see how many days this lasts...

XOXO

Training Time

My legs finally feel better again, I got out of work at 2pm today (woo!!!), and it is actually a really nice day out. The sun is actually shining. It was God's way of telling me "Rachel, you need to run at least once before this race." So I listened to him and did. We had a huge snow storm one week prior to this, so even though it is nice out, it is not nice enough to melt all the snow and ice. So the sidewalks were filled with snow/ice/puddles of some melted snow/mud... basically it was gross and my white sneaks got real dirty. And everytime I tried to run in the street I almost got run over. It was a lose-lose situation, but I was determined none the less.

I made it a little over three miles (3.25 to be exact), which I thought was pretty good for my first outing... still not five miles, but we have a week left to prepare.

Minus the muddy sneakers, and a stranger catching me when I slipped on ice (I know it sounds like a romantic scene from a movie where I fall in love the stranger at the end, but it really was just awkward and weird and we both just continued on as if nothing happened), it was a good day. I felt really great about myself, especially since I ate the cheesiest stomboli for lunch and was feeling guilty.

XOXO

Told Ya

So yeah. Worse than I thought it would be. Can't walk. Wore heels to work. SO stupid Rachel.

Back in Action

So after a small non-physical activity hiatus that I like to call winter I am back and ready to entertain you with the misery and pain that comes with me being a novice workout warrior.

As stated in my original blog post, I needed motivation to get my butt off the couch so I signed up for two races around Thanksgiving time. Those were such a success that one would think I would be motivated to continue what I started, but you would be wrong. I had high hopes until December came, and since I live in Rochester, New York, those hopes quickly faded (read: it snowed, a lot). So once again I needed some motivation to run and Kat and I signed up for Johnny's Runnin' O The Green - a five mile race on the same day as the St. Patrick Day parade in Rochester. This seemed like the perfect way to not feel guilty about all the beers that will be drank (drunk? dranken? drunken? no idea?) on that same day. However, when we registered for the race last night, I thought I had more than a week and a half to prepare for it. Whoops.

So today I decided to start training again, except it was cold out, and I got home from work late so it was already dark, and I opted to do a workout video or two instead.

I turned my tv set to channel ### (I can't remember), which is Excercise TV On Demand. It's so great. It has tons of videos that I can do in the comforts of my own home without embarassing myself in front of others at a class in a gym. A gym that I am too cheap to pay a membership for I might add.

So I pick out the first video, a quick 10-minute abs segment. It was the perfect amount of time to start working those abs, without being in too much pain at the end. Since that went so well, I thought I would attempt to do another. Not wanting to have sore abs in the morning, I opted for a video that was called "Kim Kardashian Butt" and was from her "Fit in Your Jeans by Friday" workout video series. I thought this sounded perfect. Until I started. And spent the next 23-minutes, yes 23, even though it was in the 10-minute video section, minutes in a full sweat with burning thighs.

This did not just work your butt, but so many other parts of your body that the next day my shoulders, abs, legs and pretty much everything except my butt was sore. Strange because the video was called "Kim Kardashian BUTT." Anyway, the video was spent doing millions of squats and lunges and doing them fast and slow and twisting and turning and pretty much everything I used to do when I was recovering from ACL surgery in college. Too bad my body forgot about what a pro I used to be at doing that kind of stuff.

So here I am. In pain. And it's not even the next morning yet. What a joy getting out of bed is going to be tomorrow.

XOXO


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Days until Race: 10