3rd Week of Running

I’m finding it a little harder just to get the 3 runs in a week I need. This weekend has been so busy I couldn’t make up the 3^rd run. I will say that I found the 1^st of the my 90 sec runs easier and I am running further, but the more I run on the more I feel like I’m going to die! I had my 1^st experience with shin splints, god those are awful. I had gotten new shoes on the weekend and tried them out on my Monday run, that’s when I got shin splints, on Tuesday I was just trying to walk in them, mind you this is with my mom so I might as well have been running, and I got a cramp in my foot. I didn’t really know those were possible, but if it’s possible to hurt your body in a strange way I will find it, and I did. On Wed I got another run in and that one I did much better in & then the rest of the week and weekend were booked solid. Hopefully this week I’ll get all three runs in.

2nd Week of Running

Last week was a bust, so this will be a sort post. I started off Monday looking forward to the run, unfortunately the weather didnt' agree with me, it was raining. I went out with my mom & aunt anyways and ran for a bit in the rain, but I was cold & wet & all my muscles decided that they didn't want to work properly, so we called it a day after 20 mins. Tuesday was even worst so there was no run, not even a walk. Wednesday I got ready for a walk but ended up being felled by my stomach, which decided it didn't want to work properly. Thursday I had to go out to Centennial College to get some information to help me go to school in September & then Friday I went out shopping & got new running shoes, & yesterday day....well see previous post for that information. Today is family dinner & then tomorrow hopefully I will be out again running. I'm determined to do this & I'm determined to run a marathon & I am a Taurus so I can be pretty damned stubborn when it comes to some things.

1st Week of Running

One of my life goals is to run a marathon, however I am a bit of a big girl, I'm currently hovering around 200lbs. So that I can meet that goal, and also because there is a wedding in the family coming up, I've gone to a dietitian who's helping me with my bad eating habits  and I'm getting weighed, right now, every two weeks, and I've started running. Now since I've never run like this before I'm not just going out & running until I pass out I'm doing it with this great article couch to 5k. My aunt used the same program when she starting running a few years ago, and she's in her 50's, I'm in my early 30's. I started Monday, the 1st few little runs were really hard and I lost my breath easily. Tuesday I hurt everywhere, I really do mean everywhere. I didn't go for a Wednesday, I went out on Wednesday (To see where I went check it out here), so Thursday was my next run day. Thursday it was much easier to run & even right after the run I didn't hurt, Friday I didn't hurt either. Today I ran again, I was with my aunt, who had walking sticks, and my mom, who was walking my brother's dog, who thinks he's still a puppy. Every time I would start to run the dog would try to run after me & because he's kind of big he would almost drag my mom with him. Again it was a little bit easier & because it was cold outside I wore a sweater, which I had to take off for a bit. Now though for some reason my arm hurts, that might not be because of the running though. After the run, I had a shower, had a salad, & then took a nap, I was so tired. From this 1st week of running I'm hopeful for next week. I just have a few notes for myself, 1 ALWAYS remember to stretch, I've really got to get that through my head, I forgot the first day so I'm not surprised that I hurt so much on Tuesday. 2 Make sure there is enough water for the whole run, Monday I ran out & that sucked. 3 Invest in a new sports bra soon. I'm poor right now and I'm using an old sports bra I got a few years ago, I have rather large breasts (DDD) and they bounce around a little more than I would like. 4 Look up runners diets & talk to my dietitian about them. Right now I've added more  vegetables to my diet and I've heard that runners usually have a heavy protean diet, I want to make sure I'm doing it right so that it doesn't bite me in the ass later.