Saturday Morning Run
Distance: 1.21 mi
Duration: 10:21
Avg Pace: 8:59 /mi (PR)
Total Climb: 186 ft
Notes:
This is my first attempt at running in the morning, hopefully I can stick with it. Typically I've been running in the late afternoon/evenings after class, but by then I'm mentally drained and usually unwilling to push myself too hard. It was a beautiful morning, but my shins are beginning to bother me again. I'm not sure if I'm running to often, or my body just needs to catch up with myself. Hopefully this goes away with time. This run was followed by a breakfast of 100% wheat toast and 3 eggs (yum!).
Weight check-in
Confession time: My eating habits are filthy. Five out of seven days in the week I will probably eat decent, but those two days I don't, it can get pretty bad. Sometimes it's just eating unhealthy things, sometimes it's not eating enough healthy things, other times it's straight up over eating. On the worst days, it's a combination of all three. These days usually come after stressful weeks or days when I'm feeling too lazy to eat decent. Wings, Chinese take-out (the ultra-sugary/salty bad kind), pizza, and beer are the biggest culprits for laziness. On the over eating side, brats and burgers are the wurst for me (pardon the pun). Typically, instead of one, I'll have two of them, mostly because of the convenience.
Anyways, typically you'll see here a quick update on me, myself, and I, and the following graph:
Well, this post exploded in size pretty fast, so I'll end it here. Have a great weekend! Go Badgers, go Packers, go Royals, and go Blackhawks!
Nice work, Snuggy! The hardest part of any workout/lifestyle change is just starting. (Irony: As I type this, I am currently making excuses not to visit the gym, even though I know the whole workout I have planned will take less then an hour.)
ReplyDeleteI have my own fitness goals this week. Maybe you can try them or modify them to work for you! (Plus, the more people I tell, the more accountable for my actions I feel I must be... in theory.)
1. I also love food. One of the trainers at the gym recommended I use My Fitness Pal (both a website and a smartphone app) to track what I eat and create awareness. I think he said try for 2 weeks. The website is way easier to navigate, but the app is super convenient (and kinda fun) because you have the option to scan barcodes of the foods you eat and BOOP! it just pops up! (I've had to restart my 2 weeks of keeping track of what I eat 3 times now... So I really hope I don't drag this process out anymore... Lol!)
2. Packing my gym bag the night before is my other goal. If it's packed the night before, then I don't have to drum up the motivation on the morning to pack my gym bag AND exercise. Maybe since it appears you are mainly running outdoors, you can just lay out everything you need the night before?!
Good Luck, Snuggy. I hope we can both achieve our goals this week.
Hey Arby! Thanks for the suggestions. I've actually used My Fitness Pal before, off and on dating way back to sophomore year. It's definitely a useful tool. I probably should pick it back up again, I just find it tedious to enter everything when I make food from scratch (e.g. mushroom stir fry). The gym bag thing I did while I was at my internship, and it helped a ton! Putting out stuff the night before is a great idea, and I'll definitely start doing that.
DeleteBest of luck to you too!