Am I Nuts???
Running is HOT!
My sister-in-law had her fourth baby the same time I had mine. SO, we are both feeling the flab. THIS was not my idea, though I have been attempting to exercise and resist eating whatever I feel like (chocolate!) whenever I feel like it.
I am joining Amber with this fitness plan, Couch-to-5K. I'm sure lots of people have heard of it, but it's new to me. The one problem I see in this exercise plan is that I HATE RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tonight was my first official run of the program. Five minute warm-up walk, 60 sec run, then 90 sec walk for eight times, then five minute cool-down walk.
Steven was taking the boys on the ward father/son campout, so I thought I could just run with the girls in the stroller. Ha! Sarah woke up so cranky sad from her nap (she has a cold) and Rachel was being fussy after nursing. It was like they were competing with each other. It was sort of funny. Just as I was getting the stroller out of the garage and Steven was loading up the last of the camp stuff in the back of our Brother-in-law's truck it started poring down ran! Before he could get a tarp over it all, the sleeping bags were soaked. New plans! The boys all decided to bag the campout and go on a daddy/son date. They went out to eat and then to see How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. Steven offered to stick around and let me go running without kids. It had stopped raining but started up for a bit while I ran. The girls would have been miserable! Thanks hun!!
As I ran every time the words "I hate running" came into my head I quickly fought back "I can do this, this isn't so bad." Really, it was doable. I'd like to see myself continue. Running three miles really isn't a goal of mine. My goal is to exercise and feel good about my body. I wouldn't mind if I end up being able to run three miles. I haven't done that since running with Steven in college! What happened to that? I guess we fell in love and running wasn't important anymore or he got to darn fast for me.
2 comments:
You can do it Wendy!! Three miles isn't too bad. If I can do it you can do it! I love the picture!
Oh Yay! Keep it up. I HATE running too, and I did a marathon last year. It was all just to see if I could, and for the accomplishment of it. Okay, that's not all true-it was also for the never ending pursuit of a pre-baby body (or as close as I could get it). That pursuit continues, but the feeling of accomplishing something really, really hard is empowering-kind of like the same euphoria from delivering a baby. In fact, when I was in my last miles of the marathon, I got myself through the fatigue by repeating "At least I'm not in labor, I will never be in labor again, this will be over faster than labor!! So repeat whatever mantra you need to, but keep it up. Good luck, I know you can do it. After all, mom's are experts at enduring to the end!
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