Day 29: Can't touch this....

Had a little Vanilla Ice in my head this morning for some reason, so I decided to honor him in my title today! Lame i know but who cares. So whats up with this weather being all hot again. I don't particularly like it. I love the sunshine, but I wish it was a few degrees cooler! Anyways, at least its not snowing...ugh I hate winter.

I'm starting to feel a little more like myself! Over the weekend I did well. I ran 3 miles on Saturday, and 3 on Sunday! It felt great! Yesterday was a strength and stretch day so I did awesome abs at the gym I workout at and ran a mile after that. I know I wasn't suppose to run, but I did it anyways! I also did some arm workouts as well. Today is going to be another 3 mile day. I'm a little worried its going to be a challenge just because I'm not going to be running until late in the day. I have a night class tonight that doesn't get out until 8:15 so that is going to put me running at around 9. But its fine, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do! I would really like to run the actual 10K course one day this weekend! Sunday would probably be the best day. I'm not going to kill myself and I may have to walk once I get to 4 miles but I would love to run it just to see what its like! I'll let you know how it goes.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day. And apparently today is National Think Positive Day, so everyone kick Negative Nancy out of the office and bring in Positive Patty for the day! Have a good one.

Until Tomorrow...Just Keep Running

Day 24: Long time no Blog!

Hey All! I hope you are having a wonderful day! Well I'm FINALLY back at it. After being sick for two weeks and having to go back to the doctor this past Monday, they have given me enough steroids to get me going again! Thanks Goodness!

Well yesterday was my first day back in the gym. I was very scared and worried about what my performance would be. Before I got sick I could run 3 miles with ease and push myself hard I could probably have gotten 4. I went in yesterday planning to run 3 and at 2 my body couldn't handle it anymore. I was coughing up a lung. Since all of my sickness moved to my chest, this has made it a lot harder to get over. So after the run I went to to the weight room and hit some weights and abs to get a little extra workout in. I plan on continuing to run DAILY until I get back to where I need to. I have actually considered doing two-a-days (running in the morning as well as the afternoon) but I'm not sure yet. I'm bummed that I ran so bad yesterday, but I have only been on this new medicine for 3 days so hopefully, fingers crossed, I'll be completely back to normal by Sunday and I can get a fresh start and get back at it hard. According to my training program by midwestfit.com I should be running 4 miles by Sunday of this week. I really think I can do it, if not, I'm going to try not to get frustrated and keep pushing. I mean its not like I planned on getting sick.

Weird side note: A couple of weekends ago I went out with some friends and actually had a lot of people tell me that they had been reading my blog. So if you read, then THANK YOU, its really encouraging. I hope everyone has a great day and pray that I get my endurance back soon!

Until Tomorrow...Just Keep Running!

Day 1: Just the beginning

I thought I would start today out by showing you my training schedule. Courtesy of www.midwestfit.com. These guys are great and post some great workouts. Ya'll should check them out. Anyways as you can see yesterday was just a stretch and strength day. For strength I did one of the PT's that Midwest Fit had posted on their website. It was 200 push ups, 100 pull ups, and 200 squats. Well I had to slightly modify this bc I am dealing with a shoulder injury (white water rafting) so that puts my left arm out of commission for about another week. So instead I did 200 squats, and 200 lunges (100 for each leg). Then for abs I did 100 flutter kicks, 100 crunches with legs in the air, 100 leg lifts, and 100 torso twists.

Lets just say I can't move or walk this morning. I'm guessing this 2.5 mile run this afternoon is going to be difficult. I know a lot of you are thinking, 2.5 miles is nothing, but for me this is. I haven't continuously ran on a daily basis in forever, bc its something I hated so much. Cardio has always been a struggle for me. I prefer to diet and lift weights. I guess that's kind of a guys outlook on staying in shape. So this whole running thing is fairly new and something I haven't done since high school. According to the schedule I wasn't suppose to do any cardio yesterday but I decided to go on a little stroll with my sister and our dogs. We went over to the water park to walk the track. IT WAS PACKED! I was glad though that so many people were attempting to be healthy since we have such an obese society these days. I took my puppy Lolly who isn't even a year old yet, and my sister took her Bentley who is seven. My Lolly barks and tries to run after everything and everyone who walks by. So she had a hay day. Now Bentley on the other hand barely made it one mile and we had to take turns carrying him the whole second mile. Looks like Bentley wont be going on anymore walks...poor thing.  Overall I had a great workout and a great night of TV. Bachelor Pad was intense!

Until Tomorrow....if I live....Just Keep Running!