FORE!

I am not a morning person. Don't get me wrong, I am able to get up early each morning, my job requires me to be ready to go every weekday morning at 6:30 am. I am able to function, talk and do what needs to be done. Even on the weekends, when I have luxury of sleeping in, I can't sleep later than 7:30-8:30 am on most occasions, even if I was up late the night before. I may be able to get up early, but I certainly don't have any energy. Regardless of that, I decided to go for a run this morning. This is only the second time I have actually exercised in the morning since I started seriously working out in February. Last time was when my sister was here and I barely ran at all for the 30 minutes I was on the treadmill. Today I made my hardest effort to run. I had to force myself to run for 5 minutes straight, which felt like torture. I couldn't do it and I ended up only running for 7 out of the 42 minutes I was out. Before this, I had worked myself up to running for 15-25 minutes straight out of 30 minutes everytime I went to run. That may not sound like a lot, but considering I have only been running outside 2-4 times a week for 3 weeks (and 6-7 of those days it rained, so I couldn't run) and I am now running on small hills as opposed to my flat treadmill, I am happy with my progress. Next week I am shooting for at least one day of 30 minutes of straight running. My lack of energy in the morning isn't the only reason I couldn't run. It is humid out (it did start to rain on me, so about 100% humidity I would say) and this makes it hard for me to breathe when I am walking, let alone running. And I made the mistake of doing Pilates 2 days in a row, after 2 days ago I did my longest run thus far. So my hips were already hurting from the long run and Pilates usually makes my hips sore, so just walking was a lot of pain. I either need to ease into Pilates or just do the ab one for the time being. So I learned my lesson, morning time is not the best time for me to exercise, nor is humid days or after doing too much Pilates. But I wasn't down on myself for not running much, I was happy that I was at least out doing something. I will possibly head out to run tonight, but tomorrow night for sure. And I really enjoyed the scenery and walked further than before. I walked past a golf course and just as a man was about to hit a ball, I had the strong urge to you yell out "FORE!". I didn't though, because it is not like me to do something like that. But then again, it is not like me to run either.

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Girl of Approval said…
In this month of May, we are to do things that are not of our nature. This is the plan, which I instruct you to follow. :)

Besides, I would have shouted it for you if I had been there.
5/07/2006 12:34 PM
Anonymous said…
Do you remember when we "ran" the Race for the Cure together in MT? I think you "ran" 4 out of 40 mins. we were out the. Good, solid progress. Soon, you'll be running the marathon with jdoc and me!!!

Keep up the good work!
5/08/2006 3:49 PM
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