And I have Lina, our foreign exchange student from Switzerland, to thank for that.
I had been complaining to her last weekend about running and about how I felt I wasn't accomplishing anything with my running. "It's just so hard" I kept saying. And she turned to me and said the simplest thing ever.
"If you really want to run, just do it."
For some reason, that's stuck with me. It's such a simple saying. "Just do it." I mean, it's Nike's logo. We see it everywhere. But thinking about it, it's one of the hardest things to do. Especially when it come's to exercising. We all want to do it. But actually just making ourselves do it, is the hardest part of all. It just all comes down to our motivation and want need I guess. And what we have to work for. For me, it's just wanting to do this run, and be able to say "I can do this."
But everyone has different reasons.
Anyway, I've been running almost everyday this week. And I find myself running farther and farther each time, wondering how my body is doing it. The first time I went running I thought I was about to die. My chest burned, my legs hurt...I seriously wondered how it was possible to do it. How do people run so far without just falling over?
This morning I went running, and I kept pushing myself, wondering why I wasn't loosing breath when just last week I found it hard to run a block without my chest catching on fire. However, I've been on a schedule to help keep up my running. I basically run a block, walk a block. Just to help build up my endurance. And it's worked. Now, for this week, I run two blocks, and walk a block. I run for about an hour, which when your running, never seems that long. I know I run at least a mile, which is only one part of the 5K I have to do. But I'm getting there.
That and I think the whole idea of zombies chasing after me will also help since it'll probably kick my adrenaline up.
I only have a month left till this race. And a month and a week left until the bike ride. And I couldn't be more excited. Hopefully, they both live up to the expectations I have for them. But I'm really not worried that they won't.
I've been checking the RunForYourLives website on updates on the race and such. Since 2013 races have begun they have been putting up slow motion videos that have happened during the race. Below is just one of the examples. :)
https://www.facebook.com/run.for.your.lives/app_57675755167
Anyway,
Endurance: Getting very good! :)
Weight: 136
Pant size: Same (Seriously, where am I losing this weight at? Oh well..)
Happy Training!
