#fat girl running
Yay!!!! My running is coming along!!!
I hope everyone is having a fantastic Christmas day! It definitely looks a little different this year. We video chatted with my brothers today and watched a live stream of church last night. I still got out and got a little run in today with Luna! She stopped and sniffed a ton, but didn’t jump up on me while I ran, which is an improvement, lol. My favorite gift from the day is a weighted blanket which I’ve been asking for! Lunas favorite gift was a rubber chicken that she got in her stocking. Have a very merry Christmas!!!!
GUYS!!!!! I am so excited right now! Ok just RAN a 5k! RAAAN! As in NO stopping to walk! I had no idea I could do that! Sure, i was jogging at a snails pace and moms with strollers could probably lap me, but stiiiiiill!!! I also got negative freaking splits! I am so pumped and so ready to work on getting faster! And going further! Half marathon I’m coming back for you!
I did a rainy run today!!! I feel like a real runner! I actually jogged a majority of the time too! I’m feeling really good tonight! I feel like I’m finally getting my groove back and I’m pumped! And wet! And cold!
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Today’s run was cooooold. I mean, for me, it’s like 43 out. I also jogged a lot more than I have been (very slowly mind you) so I was able to get my 5k under an hour! We’ll get back to under 45 minutes eventually.
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Getting off my butt for a walk with Luna! I’m trying to make healthier choices. My blood sugar and weight were down a little today! Yay! I had a virtual visit with my diabetes coach yesterday and she encouraged me to get outside and get some excercise especially since I miss running and have a small pile of virtual 5ks I need to do. I might try tackling one of them tomorrow. We will seeeeee. Also I wore makeup today cause I wanted to look cute for a mall outing today, I did NOT put makeup on to take the dog for a walk. At the mall I got a super cute new sweater and a Halloween Mickey Mouse at the Disney store! I’ll post a pic tomorrow! Hope everyone is surviving!
from couch 2 5k for now, I think. We’ll see. I prefer to run at the track at the park, but with the lockdown, we aren’t supposed to go to the park. I can run my neighborhood, so maybe I’ll try that, but I might just take my dog for walks and do fitness Marshall workouts at home for my workout. We’ll see what happens. I’m just going day by day. I am going to continue working, we were given the choice to get paid time off, or $3 more an hour to keep working. So for now at least, my store is still open. Who knows, that might change. Hang in there friends!
Working right now is just making me tired. I mean, I’m on day 4, so by this point I’m usually tired, but I’ve been training, which is a bit frustrating, because it feels like I’m doing 2 jobs at once, my own, plus babysitting someone else. But I’ll be happy once that training bonus comes in! But it’s also just frustrating being one of the few businesses open. It’d be nice to be paid like a necessity! But I’ve been having trouble getting myself to go out running even though it’s GORGEOUS out. With being wiped by the time I get home and then also hanging out with my friend who’s home, I just keep putting it off. So I’ve just been running every 4 days instead of every other day. Oh well.
w4d1 again, a slow one this time. Running in corona virus central! The park was a little crowded cause it was a beautiful day! My favorite part was seeing the basketball players passing around the hand sanitizer. I work at Starbucks and as of today we are grab and go only, which is pretty bizarre. No one can sit in the cafe, so it’s really quiet. The drive thru was pretty hoppin though! We are all a little worried that it’s gonna go to full quarantine soon, I hope not. I’m being irresponsible and going to the mall tomorrow to pick up some dresses I ordered from Old Navy and one of my friends needs to return a few things I think. We’ll see if it’s even open by the time we plan to go. Stay safe and healthy everyone!
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c25k w4d3 done! After work today my mom and I took Luna to the dog park and she had the best time ever. She played with tons of dogs and ran and ran and ran. Her tongue was hanging out of her mouth the whole time. Then I came home and went for a run, since tomorrow is supposed to get kind of stormy. I put my c25k app and my watch info side by side, so you can see the huge difference between the paces. The app has my pace way faster, which is just really annoying. On my Garmin, laps 2 and 3 are the running/walking portion while 1 and 4 are warm up and cool down. I’ll probably just post my Garmin here from now on to post more accurate stuff. I’m definitely repeating this week, no week 5 for me yet!
In corona virus news, all schools are now shut down until almost the end of April. I kind of wish I was back in school, cause I’d be pumped! But no, I work one of the only jobs that continues on like normal, we’ll see if Starbucks ends up having to shut down cafes or anything, apparently they are “prepared” to do that according to an e-mail sent out to customers, but we haven’t heard anything on the store level. I’m glad I wasn’t able to go down to Orlando since now Disney and Universal on both coasts are closed! It’s madness out there!
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w4d2 done! DEFINITELY going to be repeating this week before moving onto week 5. That 5 minute run is hard!
For those of you that don’t know, I am in the Seattle area where we seem to be the epicenter of corona virus in the US. Everything fun is currently cancelled or postponed! This weekend I was supposed to go to comic con, which is postponed (though I’m not getting my hopes up) and I had a 5k on Saturday, which they’re just turning into a virtual run, so I can still go pick up the t-shirt, which I’ll probably do. There was no medal anyway. There will still be pie as well (it was a pi day dash, with pie!) I was also supposed to usher at the end of the month at one of the big theaters downtown, but that’s cancelled as well. The good news is that my friend is home from China since they don’t have school there, so I’ve really been enjoying having her home. I wanted to take advantage of these super cheap flights right now and go down to Orlando, but I wouldn’t be able to stay with my family down there because they are close with immunocompromised people, so I can’t risk bringing the virus into their home. Totally understandable and probably good for my wallet to not go, haha. They are saying that there might be more announcements in the next couple of days as to what other changes the corona virus is going to bring to our lives, but for now I’m just keeping on, living life.
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The other day was super nice out so I went and did w3d3 again since I took a week off. Then my friend and I took Luna on a walk at the waterfront! She had a great time sniffing new things and meeting new pups! Yesterday I didn’t do much, but today the sun is starting to come out so I think I’ll go try out w4d2. I’ll update on that.
