Something New

   Are you sensing a theme on my titles here? Totally un-related posts but the tittles worked. This title should properly be named "I LOVE my husband!", but I thought that was too mushy and worried you guys wouldn't read it.

    Before I get to the good stuff, lets cover some back ground info first.

    I am a slacker.......

I also tend to quit things when I don't see the results I intended to. These two horrible traits together have many times resulted in me quitting a fitness program. I have always had short term goals: getting bikini ready, weddings, photos, ect.

   When I decided to start running I had no short term goals other than distances. It was no longer about the numbers on the scale which to be honest I still check habitually, but I feel nothing when I see the numbers. It's also not about my pant size (I mean I wouldn't mind being smaller, but that's not my focus.) My goal is to be the healthiest I can be and to enjoy any activity that helps me get there.

   With all that said, I still know my bad traits are still just under the surface. That's why, when I started to pursue my running goals, I told myself I didn't get to buy all the sweet swag I wanted up front. So I set distance goals that I had to meet in order to buy certain things.

• First 5k race resulted in a visit to the Nike Outlets and the purchase of a new outfit.
• Sticking with running for two month garnered me new running shoes and special socks.
• For my first half I had planned to buy a Garmin or similar..... Enter story about AMAZING hubby.

    On Saturday afternoon I had to spend hours studying for my oral spanish exam with a partner. Hubby had a few errands to run so he took me into town. Hours later when my head hurt from studying too much and the hubby came to pick me up. With. A. Present.

   Lovely hubby had picked me up the Polar FT60 G1. Heck ya! Heart rate monitor + GPS!

                     O geez, that's a lot of electronics... I'm going to be picking up alien frequencies!

   I tried it out Sunday. Did I like it? Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. We'll save that for my next post..

What's the best running-related gift you have received?

Alive and AWESOME

     It's been a busy couple of days. With my wonderful hubby arriving safely back to me tomorrow, I have gone a bit OCD with my cleaning. I honestly have felt like a mother nesting in preparation for his return. I have cleaned absurd things, okay maybe important, but not important to his return. Windows, baseboards, weird stuff.

  Anyways, the cleaning definitely cut into my workouts. Today was my first run since Thursday, BUT it was awesome. Talking to my Dad last night we were talking about the feeling I had when I ran for 6 miles the first time and it got me excited to prove to myself that I could do it again. 

 

AND I DID.

AND I sped up my pace, reducing my time by seven minutes.

     Needless to say, it was an awesome day. So awesome I may attempt 7 miles at the end of the week. BRING IT ON! I am so fired up about running right now that I am slightly tempted to go run again. But it's dark and there are really scary animals out there (not awesome).

     After my run I rewarded myself with a much-earned bath and read the latest copy of RW. Yes, I realize it came out like a month ago but I just bought it. It was the first time I read the magazine and I loved it. So inspiring and awesome that I signed up for a 2 year subscription.

 Random, random post. I'm sorry. I just had to vomit my awesome (Okay enough with that word jeez!!) thoughts.

 


    I hope you all had an awesome great Easter. It felt good to eat healthy and knock out a good run instead of over-indulging myself on home-made rolls.... man they are good. I can't promise the same tomorrow though. I will probably spoil myself at dinner with the hubby. And I also cant promise a post. I  suppose I should show my hubby the same love as my trusty Nike's.

Tell me about your most awesome run... what made it so special??