So I have a new personal trainer.
Me.
Yep, you read that right. I have become my own personal trainer.
After 10 weeks doing an 8 week couch to 5K program, (and still not completing it per their goals), I've decided to do it myself.
See, around week 7, C25K expects you to run for 25 minutes, or 2.5 miles. Non-stop. I'm sorry, but going from a complete non-runner to running 25 minutes straight in 7 weeks (in my case 10)? I just can't do it. No matter how hard I try. I end up with crossed eyes and nearly falling off the treadmill from lack of air trying.
So I have a new goal now. 3 times a week, I run 3 miles. It doesn't matter if I stop to walk, or how long it takes me, I go for 3 miles.
Last Monday I did it in 40 minutes. Wednesday I did it in 36 minutes and 10 seconds. Friday, I didn't run. It seems by the time Friday afternoon comes along, I'm just tired and busy trying to get ready for the weekend and our family day.
So consistency isn't there. And I am stopping to walk. And I'm not flat out running until the last quarter mile. But I am completing 3 miles, at one time, without feeling dissapointed at the end because I couldn't go as far or as long as an app on my phone told me I should be going.
And I feel so much better about myself!
So watch out 5K - here I come!
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
As the world turns....
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.... (Check out a great little Soap song by Carmen here - LOVE this song, so nostalgic for me!)
So after my quick Thursday post about possibly doing a new year post, I decided to write a new year's post! Just like last year, I'm the last blogger to get a new year's post written!
I've read a lot of blogs this past week listing goals and intentions, plans and projects. Usually at this point I would say "I don't really have any goals set...." except that I do.
Goals - (in no particular order)
1. Run a 5K. I'm currently in training for this, you can read some of those posts here.
2. Read through my Bible in a year. I'm following this plan put together by the Faith Baptist College and Theological Seminary. The LIFT ladies handed out bookmarks for this plan, and since I've never read through my Bible, much less done it in a year, I thought this would be a good place to start. Plus, knowing that my LIFT ladies are doing the same challenge encourages me.
3. Help my family be more consistent in chores and healthy eating choices. To do this, I'm following the 52 Weeks to an Organized Home plan and.... well, I don't have a plan for healthy eating choices. Though Mr. Curly and I have talked about adding veggie trays to our pizza and nacho nights, hoping that snacking on the good foods while the bad foods cook will help us eat less bad food. It's an idea, right?
4. Remember that I was a wife before I was a mother, and a friend before I was a wife. This sounds odd, doesn't it? Most moms are striving to be more and more connected with their kids, more present, more accessible, more pinterest-y.... and I want to be those things. But this year Mr. Curly and I will have been married 10 years and I love him to death. He's still my best friend, the one who can make me laugh even when I don't want to, the one who holds me when I cry, is strong when I am weak, and who encourages me to be stronger than I think possible. And I want that to continue. I want that for the next 100 years. So while I'm organizing our home, and making better food choices, and keeping up on chores, and planning all sorts of things fun for the kids, I'm going to remember that before their was a Mr. and Mrs. Curly, there was just two college kids, hanging out in the box (My MNU buddies will totally get this), eating pizza and ice cream, watching movies and quoting songs to each other.
Whew. That seems like a lot already, right? But, wait, there's more! I'm also joining another blog - The Bible In a Year and Beyond! Their button is at the right, and I will be contributing to this every other Monday, working through several books in the Bible with an in depth study. That site is also following the same reading plan my LIFT group is (thanks Tammy for taking that suggestion!), so I have extra encouragement there.
This blog has already been challenging to me, as I'm planning my post for Monday on Esther 4, but it is a good challenge. So while I challenge my body to run harder and faster, I'm now challenging my spiritual knowledge and writing skills to grow and expand.
So, yeah, I have goals again this year! Lots of them! And whether I meet them all or not... the beat will go on.
So after my quick Thursday post about possibly doing a new year post, I decided to write a new year's post! Just like last year, I'm the last blogger to get a new year's post written!
I've read a lot of blogs this past week listing goals and intentions, plans and projects. Usually at this point I would say "I don't really have any goals set...." except that I do.
Goals - (in no particular order)
1. Run a 5K. I'm currently in training for this, you can read some of those posts here.
2. Read through my Bible in a year. I'm following this plan put together by the Faith Baptist College and Theological Seminary. The LIFT ladies handed out bookmarks for this plan, and since I've never read through my Bible, much less done it in a year, I thought this would be a good place to start. Plus, knowing that my LIFT ladies are doing the same challenge encourages me.
3. Help my family be more consistent in chores and healthy eating choices. To do this, I'm following the 52 Weeks to an Organized Home plan and.... well, I don't have a plan for healthy eating choices. Though Mr. Curly and I have talked about adding veggie trays to our pizza and nacho nights, hoping that snacking on the good foods while the bad foods cook will help us eat less bad food. It's an idea, right?
4. Remember that I was a wife before I was a mother, and a friend before I was a wife. This sounds odd, doesn't it? Most moms are striving to be more and more connected with their kids, more present, more accessible, more pinterest-y.... and I want to be those things. But this year Mr. Curly and I will have been married 10 years and I love him to death. He's still my best friend, the one who can make me laugh even when I don't want to, the one who holds me when I cry, is strong when I am weak, and who encourages me to be stronger than I think possible. And I want that to continue. I want that for the next 100 years. So while I'm organizing our home, and making better food choices, and keeping up on chores, and planning all sorts of things fun for the kids, I'm going to remember that before their was a Mr. and Mrs. Curly, there was just two college kids, hanging out in the box (My MNU buddies will totally get this), eating pizza and ice cream, watching movies and quoting songs to each other.
Whew. That seems like a lot already, right? But, wait, there's more! I'm also joining another blog - The Bible In a Year and Beyond! Their button is at the right, and I will be contributing to this every other Monday, working through several books in the Bible with an in depth study. That site is also following the same reading plan my LIFT group is (thanks Tammy for taking that suggestion!), so I have extra encouragement there.
This blog has already been challenging to me, as I'm planning my post for Monday on Esther 4, but it is a good challenge. So while I challenge my body to run harder and faster, I'm now challenging my spiritual knowledge and writing skills to grow and expand.
So, yeah, I have goals again this year! Lots of them! And whether I meet them all or not... the beat will go on.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Keep runnin', runnin'....
Since the weather turned cold, I've been running circles in our basement. Our basement is split in two - storage area, and fellowship hall for our church (one of the, um, perks, of living in an old parsonage is that when the church was built, they just put the fellowship hall in the parsonage basement. It's not bad really, I've cleared it of tables and chairs to give the kids a place to run and ride their bikes this winter. So, yeah, maybe it is a perk).
Let me tell you, running circles in a basement is not that fun. It isn't a big circle, so you can get bored and dizzy easily. So I started saving my paper route money in hopes of finding a treadmill on craigslist or something.
After a week at the in-laws running on a treadmill, I posted this on facebook (where everybody disagreed with me):
The person who said it was easier to run outside than on a treadmill should've been forced to prove that as fact.
While on my in-laws treadmill, I discovered that my speed is anything BUT consistent. I had no idea how much I sped up and slowed down during my running times! Being forced to stay at one speed really worked me out.
I'm not entirely sure that I like that much of a challenge, but it probably is good for me, so I continued my search for a treadmill. And yesterday, I hit gold.
We had some time to kill before playdate (our errand running didn't take as long as I had planned for), so we stopped at Goodwill. This may seem odd, but I had hopes of either finding a) another 100% wool sweater to make into diaper covers or b) a good record for our newly refurbished record player.
While searching the records (in which I scored a complete copy of Handels Messiah for $2), I turned to see Curly Baby attempting to climb a treadmill. A treadmill for $50!
2 phone calls, 10 minutes, and $50 later, I was the proud new owner of a Lifestyler Expanse 600!
Mr. Curly went and picked it up for me. I took 11 trips up 2 flights of stairs to move our boxes from the basement to the attic, and voila! Storage area, now a work out area. Mr. Curly said he'd even set up a TV for me down there!
So this morning, I ran on my treadmill and discovered it needs some carpet under it (the cement floor is uneven, and makes it LOUD), and that, yes, my speed is still inconsistent. However, theoretically, I burned 315 calories and 99 fat calories, ran/walked for 32 minutes, and went 1.85 miles.
Not bad. Not great, but not bad. And at least I'm not getting dizzy.
Let me tell you, running circles in a basement is not that fun. It isn't a big circle, so you can get bored and dizzy easily. So I started saving my paper route money in hopes of finding a treadmill on craigslist or something.
After a week at the in-laws running on a treadmill, I posted this on facebook (where everybody disagreed with me):
The person who said it was easier to run outside than on a treadmill should've been forced to prove that as fact.
While on my in-laws treadmill, I discovered that my speed is anything BUT consistent. I had no idea how much I sped up and slowed down during my running times! Being forced to stay at one speed really worked me out.
I'm not entirely sure that I like that much of a challenge, but it probably is good for me, so I continued my search for a treadmill. And yesterday, I hit gold.
We had some time to kill before playdate (our errand running didn't take as long as I had planned for), so we stopped at Goodwill. This may seem odd, but I had hopes of either finding a) another 100% wool sweater to make into diaper covers or b) a good record for our newly refurbished record player.
While searching the records (in which I scored a complete copy of Handels Messiah for $2), I turned to see Curly Baby attempting to climb a treadmill. A treadmill for $50!
2 phone calls, 10 minutes, and $50 later, I was the proud new owner of a Lifestyler Expanse 600!
Mr. Curly went and picked it up for me. I took 11 trips up 2 flights of stairs to move our boxes from the basement to the attic, and voila! Storage area, now a work out area. Mr. Curly said he'd even set up a TV for me down there!
So this morning, I ran on my treadmill and discovered it needs some carpet under it (the cement floor is uneven, and makes it LOUD), and that, yes, my speed is still inconsistent. However, theoretically, I burned 315 calories and 99 fat calories, ran/walked for 32 minutes, and went 1.85 miles.
Not bad. Not great, but not bad. And at least I'm not getting dizzy.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
I'm out of it for a little while, everybody gets delusions of grandeur!
Cake: Fashion Nugget: I Will Survive.
That song is right smack dab in the middle of my running play list. Which is good, because right after any song used in a Rocky training montage, it is THE song to get me moving faster. You just can't go slow to that!
But it is also bad, because it is right smack dab in the middle of my running play list. Which means, I kick it into high gear, and then remember I still have half way to go and now I've spent all my energy!
So while I feel like I can run as swift as a cheetah, I'm sure the people driving by are like "Wow, she's walking briskly."
Still, I made it through my first week of training, and despite the horrible diet of the weekend, started Week 2 training.
I don't think I'll move the song -after all, it isn't such a bad thing to push yourself to go farther after you've gone as fast as you can go.
Post Title Quote from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
That song is right smack dab in the middle of my running play list. Which is good, because right after any song used in a Rocky training montage, it is THE song to get me moving faster. You just can't go slow to that!
But it is also bad, because it is right smack dab in the middle of my running play list. Which means, I kick it into high gear, and then remember I still have half way to go and now I've spent all my energy!
So while I feel like I can run as swift as a cheetah, I'm sure the people driving by are like "Wow, she's walking briskly."
Still, I made it through my first week of training, and despite the horrible diet of the weekend, started Week 2 training.
I don't think I'll move the song -after all, it isn't such a bad thing to push yourself to go farther after you've gone as fast as you can go.
Post Title Quote from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Friday, October 26, 2012
Reader to Runner
My sports history is brief: I played soccer when I was 6 years old, and I was track manager my freshman year of high school.
That is it.
And yet, I'm planning on running a 5K next spring.
You did not read that wrong.
Isn't that crazy though? To go from never running ever (unless I have to catch Curly Boy in a parking lot) to doing a 5K? It is insane. And yet, I'm doing it. I have some weird internal motivation going on and Mr. Curly and Mrs. Kleeman egging me on.
I'm using the ever popular C25K app on my iPhone for training. I've made it through the first week where you alternate running 60 seconds with walking 90 seconds. The first day was awful, the second was really good, and today..... Well, today the running was ok (I wasn't as fast as I would've like to have been) but everything else conspired against me - the earbuds wouldn't stay in, the headband wouldn't keep my hair back, my gloves (fingerless with a little mitten flap) wouldn't stay in place.... But I made it.
My one concern is that the app is crazy. There is no way someone who has not been exercising at all can start out with this jog/walk cycle for 30 minutes right off that bat. In 2 weeks they expect me to jogging for 5 minutes at a time! No, 5 minutes isn't too long - but to me, who's breathing is labored after running 90 seconds, 5 minutes is insane. I'm glad that I've been walking a paper route since January, and walking with the same Mrs. Kleeman 3 times a week for a few weeks before beginning this training, or I'd be in trouble.
Anyway.
I'm running a 5K. In May 2013. Wish me luck.
That is it.
And yet, I'm planning on running a 5K next spring.
You did not read that wrong.
Isn't that crazy though? To go from never running ever (unless I have to catch Curly Boy in a parking lot) to doing a 5K? It is insane. And yet, I'm doing it. I have some weird internal motivation going on and Mr. Curly and Mrs. Kleeman egging me on.
I'm using the ever popular C25K app on my iPhone for training. I've made it through the first week where you alternate running 60 seconds with walking 90 seconds. The first day was awful, the second was really good, and today..... Well, today the running was ok (I wasn't as fast as I would've like to have been) but everything else conspired against me - the earbuds wouldn't stay in, the headband wouldn't keep my hair back, my gloves (fingerless with a little mitten flap) wouldn't stay in place.... But I made it.
My one concern is that the app is crazy. There is no way someone who has not been exercising at all can start out with this jog/walk cycle for 30 minutes right off that bat. In 2 weeks they expect me to jogging for 5 minutes at a time! No, 5 minutes isn't too long - but to me, who's breathing is labored after running 90 seconds, 5 minutes is insane. I'm glad that I've been walking a paper route since January, and walking with the same Mrs. Kleeman 3 times a week for a few weeks before beginning this training, or I'd be in trouble.
Anyway.
I'm running a 5K. In May 2013. Wish me luck.
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