Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Adventure time
James is coming to the gym with me tomorrow! Fun! Exercising with a buddy seems like a better plan.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Springtime
Good news...today was better. I think how much I enjoy my run is directly related to how nice it is outside. Today, for example, is balmy and warm. The sky is bright blue and the air smells like spring. Not like flowers, it's still too early for that...it's that early spring smell of damp earth, like when the ground finally thaws. I have no idea where that smell is coming from, since this is North Carolina, and the ground was at no point frozen to begin with.
Anyway, whenever it's a really gorgeous day, I love to be outside...so it makes the running a little more bearable. Clearly yet another argument for moving to Hawaii, where almost every day is beautiful.
Anyway, whenever it's a really gorgeous day, I love to be outside...so it makes the running a little more bearable. Clearly yet another argument for moving to Hawaii, where almost every day is beautiful.
Friday, February 3, 2012
One month down, 11 to go...
Today was sort of a big deal for me. I had two options. Suit up and head out for a run, which I wanted to do about as much as I wanted to drive a rusty spike through my ear...or consider my resolution to exercise officially broken by the week of zero physical activity. You can probably guess which I chose, since I likely would not come here to write about my failed resolution.
Anyway, suffice to say after a week of inactivity my run was not at all fun. I got dizzy again, which is really very pitiful when you consider I'm not exactly running a triathlon here. But by god, the point is, I went and did it. I don't really care if I never run three miles, let alone ten, as long as I don't become a sea cow or a dependapotamus. (Which for those of you don't know, is slang for a military dependent wife who weighs 400 pounds and does nothing. I laughed myself sick when I first heard the term.)
The good news is we haven't failed at eating healthy nearly as much as I have failed at exercising. They key for both of us, we discovered, is that we have to find healthy ways to be lazy. Having a tray of pre-cut veggies for snacking helps, for example, and V8 juice does too. We found greek yogurt in single-serving cups with fruit on the bottom, and that's pretty nice too...it doesn't even taste foul, and I double-checked to make sure it's not just full of corn syrup.
Day one all over again, more or less a success. Lets see how tomorrow goes.
Anyway, suffice to say after a week of inactivity my run was not at all fun. I got dizzy again, which is really very pitiful when you consider I'm not exactly running a triathlon here. But by god, the point is, I went and did it. I don't really care if I never run three miles, let alone ten, as long as I don't become a sea cow or a dependapotamus. (Which for those of you don't know, is slang for a military dependent wife who weighs 400 pounds and does nothing. I laughed myself sick when I first heard the term.)
The good news is we haven't failed at eating healthy nearly as much as I have failed at exercising. They key for both of us, we discovered, is that we have to find healthy ways to be lazy. Having a tray of pre-cut veggies for snacking helps, for example, and V8 juice does too. We found greek yogurt in single-serving cups with fruit on the bottom, and that's pretty nice too...it doesn't even taste foul, and I double-checked to make sure it's not just full of corn syrup.
Day one all over again, more or less a success. Lets see how tomorrow goes.
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