The "Rock your Jeans" challenge started this week, I decided not to buy a fancy pair of jeans, or an expensive pair. I figured that just cause they would end up fitting didn't mean that they would look good. I found a $18 pair on sale and decided to go with that. Yesterday I had to prove to Deana (one of the trainers) that I indeed could not button or zip my new pants. I told her no laughing! I was given a diet to follow, that frankly sounds like its going to miserable, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. So the 10 weeks begins.
Erich has started going back to the gym, which has been nice cause I was sooooo tired of all those guys hitting on me when I went alone. And I'm totally kidding and I'm not that vain so don't believe it! There is no competing with some of the tight spandex Barbies that work out there, and seriously I was kidding. But its very helpful that Erich is on track with me, with eating and exercising. He's a bit more hard core than I am tho so we each kinda follow our own plan.
A few weeks ago I decided that on the Christmas weekend I wasn't going to run my typical Saturday 4 to 5 mile run that I usually do. I run from our house to my work or almost to Target Distribution and back. This time I wanted to see how far I could run. So I told Erich that I was going to run as far as I could and then I would call him to come pick me up. He suggested that I run to my parents house in North Albany. Bahahaha omg sometimes he can be hilarious! So one day I clocked the miles and it was 10 miles almost exact, so I thought, why not try!?! I woke up Christmas Eve morning and thought hmmm, now mind you I am the most unpredictable runner around. I have no rhyme or reason as to what I do, I do eat carbs that night before and drink tons of water the day before, but I really don't know what I'm doing. I told Erich I was leaving and that I would call him, my first goal was to make it to LBCC, as I ran past our shop my dad was standing out on the side walk waiting for me in his coveralls, he smiled and waved (it was pretty cute) my next goal was 53rd street, then onto YMCA, then Hasty Freeze, then I got to the bridge to go over North Albany, it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, BUT when I got to Gibson Hill...Holy Mother of Pearl I wanted to die. I checked my run keeper and it said I had gone 9 miles, I wanted to go 10 so badly so that's when you gotta dig deep, and tell yourself if you can go this far, you can go farther and you are not a wimp! I made it in 2 hours and 2 minutes to my parents back door, and I actually felt great! They say that's a runners high, lol I think french fries would do the same. I was so proud of myself and as Erich picked me up and we drove home the same way I ran, I couldn't believe that I actually went that far and didn't stop to walk once or give up. My body has paid for that run these last few days, I'm still pretty overweight so my weight pounding on my joints can be painful. I started taking Glucosimine and it really does help, Ive been running everyday this week and that would not have been possible last week before I started taking it. Just wanted to recommend it to anyone cause I really think it works. Its a little weird tho when I tell my parents I am taking it and my dad says...oh I give that to our dog! So its multipurpose!
This particular post is a bit "look at me" well I guess this whole blog is haha and that's not my intention. Its mostly to document for me, where I am at. I went back and read my old posts and it was right before I was going to run my first 5k. I posted how fast I could run a mile and for me to look back on that and compare to where I am now, it makes me excited to see that Ive improved. And also its for the people that think they cannot do something, its to encourage that indeed you can do something, because if I can do it, then by all means you SO can do it, but it just depends on how bad you want to do it. You have to find that desire inside you and use that to fuel you, it also helps to have friends and fun girls at the gym like I get to have. They all know how hard it is so we smile for each other, its a camaraderie rather than a competition and I am so thankful for them.
Hope you are all having a good start to the New Year, maybe do the jean challenge on your own and see if in 10 weeks you can button and zip your cool pants!
