Stepping out.
I don’t know what made me do it, but last week, I got home from work, strapped Sami into the stroller with a good sippy and a book, and went running.
Actually, I do know what made me do it. I wanted to make some use of my heart rate monitor. I’ve decided that since my weight loss results through diet modification alone are not only tapering off but leaving me a little jigglier than I am comfortable with. The time is right for me to step into this fitness thing, whole hog, and make it work.
Well, I went running four times last week, went to one kickboxing class, did a few pilates videos… and I started this week much stronger than last week. By a long shot, actually. I went for an hour long run on Saturday, a half hour run yesterday, and today I did a slightly longer run than on Saturday, adding a few more twists and turns into my route, but I did it in ten minutes less time. I ran all but two blocks of the run.
My conclusion is: it’s much easier to get into better performance shape when carrying around less body mass. It just is. I made a few feeble attempts at jogging back in the winter and never had this kind of success.
I did something on this run that I would never have done even up to a month ago. I wore spandex capri yoga pants, yo. All my regular workout clothes are, predictably, in the laundry, since I’ve been doing a lot of exercising. Instead of doing the Old Cheryl thing of just saying, F it, I don’t have optimal shorts, I’ll just veg instead, I made do and got my butt out there. Also, my butt just doesn’t look THAT bad in these pants. I wouldn’t necessarily wear them to the office or to the supermarket, but it’s fine to get me through the run I desperately needed to NOT blow off.
I feel so good about running right now that I replaced my old shoes (had ‘em since late ’05) and bought myself proper running shorts that won’t itch or chafe. Maybe I’ll enter a 3k in the near future!
I am feeling quite chuffed with myself at the moment.
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