Month: July 2012

Trainer

First of three sessions with a personal trainer after work today. It’s really cool to reframe my fitness goals from the last time I had a trainer. 

Old Me: Lose weight.

Current Me: strength train and get toned with weight loss as an added bonus.

Every Summer

runwithrach:

I wonder how I became so slow…how I lost all I had built…why I’m struggling to run, to breathe, to keep moving…is it worth the struggle?

Then, when the fall arrives, and the air is cool and crisp, I get my answers.

I no longer struggle. My running ability was not lost, it was strengthened through struggle and strife. I’m faster. I’m stronger. I’m fierce.

And that’s what pulls me through these terrible months of training.

6 incredibly hot, humid, sunny miles 1:07:14.

I so can relate to this. My ego gets bruised in this weather. I ran a freaking marathon in March and now 3 months later I STRUGGLE through 5 miles. However I am keeping my eye on the prize and I know come late October it will all be worth it. 

Could you possibly wear any more accessories for your run?

roommate to me

To be fair I was wearing my ipod, garmin, hydration belt w/ 2 bottles and then came back into the house to get a visor. 

1 month

My 29th birthday is 1 month from tomorrow. In all honesty I am both excited and horrified. 

I really try to not play the “this is where I thought I’d be in life” game too often, but birthdays tend to make you do that. 

The Good

  • I’m FINALLY living exactly where I want to be
  • My life is social, active and exciting
  • I ran a freaking marathon in my 28th year and training for another
  • For the first time in my life I have a decent handle on my finances 
  • I now work to live, as opposed to live to work. I loved my old job, but I am so much more than a job

The Bad No So Good

  • I want to be a long term serious relationship
  • I’m tired of never getting below 176, why won’t the damn scale budge
  • Grey hairs and wrinkles are not cute. Thank God for hair dye and magical potions from L’Oreal