This has been a BUSY week! A great example early on of something I have always struggled with… time management! And making time for working out is the worst! Who wants to go running after a long day of work, errands, and cleaning house? This last week I worked a full 38 hours (side-thought: I thought I was supposed to be part-time?), plus I was preparing for a three day weekend in Pullman to celebrate my sister’s 21st bday, and I have also been doing a TON of stuff to get ready for my sister-in-law’s baby shower this Sunday! To fit in workouts this week I had quite a few adventures…
Couch to 5k, Week 2, Day 2… Aaron went running before I got home because he thought I was not going to have a chance to fit in a workout that night. Little did he know, I was determined to go! He didn’t feel comfortable letting me go by myself because there are no streetlights around our house… so, instead of running again he rode his bike beside me. It was perfect!! He wore his hunting headlamp on his head so we could both see where we were going and cars could see us. And he also had the red flashing light on the back of his bike so cars could see us from behind too. He was a great motivator because it was SO cold and dark outside!
Couch to 5k, Week 2, Day 3… Pullman Weekend Away! Normal on a mini-vacation I would totally skip workouts completely, who wants to workout on vacation? That is a foreign concept to me. But no more excuses! Saturday needed to be my run day! Thankfully my Mother-in-Law is also doing this workout plan and she went with me to Pullman, so we got up and went Saturday morning. She is a few weeks ahead of me, so we went to the track to run. She lapped me twice because she was running 20 straight minutes and I was still doing intervals. We both rocked it though. J Took a quick pic post-workout as proof and headed to Starbucks!
Couch to 5K, Week 3, Day 1… This was yesterday’s workout. Description: Brisk five-minute warm-up walk, then do two repetitions of the following: jog for 90 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, jog for 3 minutes, walk for 3 minutes. End with a five minute cool down walk. My plan for yesterday was to work 9-1, drive down to Olympia to my Mom’s (an hour away), and finish my sister-in-law’s baby shower present on my Mom’s sewing machine. Then I was going to go running there and drive back home. Sewing of course, took longer than expected, and at ten o’clock I was tired and ready to go home with no running. But no excuses! Guilted my little brother into going with me and was so glad! Turned out the run woke me up and stretched out my stiff muscles that had been sitting in front of a sewing machine for hours. It was also nice to catch up with my baby brother!
Lessons this week: Do it anyway! If you plan to workout that day, DO IT. No excuses. I think that will be the only way this will work for me. Next week I want to focus a little more on the eating better part… stay tuned for some recipes!
Sam
It was fun to workout with you...wish we could do it more often. On Monday I ran part of the Danskin course in Seattle. I even ran the steep hill! And today I took your advise to "Do it anyway" and ran today in the snow! I had to run down the middle of the street but I am so glad I didn't let the weather stop me. Thanks for encouraging me Samantha!
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