First 5K Race!

On Saturday I completed my first 5k race! It felt great! Well actually it felt brutal, that was no easy course, but in the end, it felt great. I was disappointed with my time at first, but then I got real. The course had 3 hills, the beginning of the course sucked, it’s a immediate downhill, so you don’t even have your stride and suddenly you’re going down, for a long while I might add, and then you haven’t even straightened out and you’re going uphill. So the first km was awful and I couldn’t catch my breath which does not happen for me. The rest of the race was better but a poor start still sets you back. And then there was 2 more hills which I was fine with, but still, slow you down. But in the end I came in under 35 minutes which is what I wanted anyways. So go me!

I’m going to go for a 10km race in September!

Next up I have a 5k obstacle race in a few weeks, SO EXCITED for it! I’ve always wanted to do an obstacle race. This was originally going to be my first race but then I found out about the other race 2 weeks ago, basically the day I’d done 5k for the first time and signed up for it since it was so cheap, only 15 bucks! The 10k I’m going to do is part of the same series so only 15 bucks again 🙂

And I inspired my dad to start walking! So proud of him! 61 year old man has pretty much done nothing but lay of the couch and sit at a desk for the past 15 years and yesterday when he saw me dressed in my workout gear he asked if I was going for a run. I said no (I was headed to the gym) and he said oh I was going to come with you, he says this kind of thing a lot so I didn’t think he was serious but I said okay, let’s go. And then he did! So we walked nearly 3km at a pace he said was fast for him. Said he was tired after but he’s fine today so we’re going to go out for another walk tomorrow! So will be a busy day for me, I go to yoga right after work, and then I’ll go for a walk with him and after that will do a quick jog.

Oh I also biked 16km on Saturday! Felt great, minus my bum. Hopefully it will get use to the bike seat soon! Damn annoying! Then I can ride longer 🙂

And I’m up to 6km on my long runs now! So exciting and proud of myself! Who knew I’d be doing this?

Also down to 173! I’m not going to cheat my diet this week (hopefully, so far so good) and maybe, maybe, I can finally be at 170 by the weekend! My workouts have been going great! I mean not last week since I was gearing down for the race, but I HATED it, because I had to do so much less than I did the week before, and I kind of love that I hated it. Like Thursday I couldn’t do anything and I was not impressed lol I was like maybe I’ll go for a walk, I’d had such a huge lunch, and my friend was like NO! Rest! So I grudgingly obliged. But I’m really just loving it! And mostly I feel great, sometimes I’m still down on myself because I want my tummy gone and my inner thighs are flabby, but I’ve come such a long way and I look and the mirror and I can tell I’m smaller. It’s so mind boggling I’m half convinced I’m seeing things but 25+ pounds gone doesn’t lie.

Month 2: Day 29

I’m getting kind of excited to take this month’s progress picture and compare it against last’s. I’ve definitely been noticing a lot of changed in myself where as I hadn’t really the first month, it’s like my body is suddenly like oh hey, there’s 10 less pounds on me now, I think I need to start showing it. Also loosing 10 pounds feels amazing for my moral. When I was working out this time last year I never quite made it to -10. Once before did I loose more than 10 pounds and it wasn’t really that I worked for it, I just wasn’t eating very much at that point for various reasons. And another time a few years ago when I got crazy stressed out and lost 10 pounds in like 3 weeks, that definitely doesn’t count though because I actually was not eating much more than a granola bar every day no matter how hard I tried.

ANYWAYS what I’m saying by all this jumble, this is the first time I’ve reached -10 and actually worked hard for it and I’m still going, it’s really exciting to think that I’m only 5 pounds away from being half way to my first goal. Actually that sounds kind of complicated all typed out but to me it is exciting!

So breakfast was the ever amazing pomegranate overnight oatmeal (refer to yesterday’s post for recipe) with strawberries and blueberries

1 cup of green tea because I was kind of busy and just pretty much forgot to have a second cup

lunch was peppers and cucumber in hummus, forgot to set aside my lupini beans last night and there wasn’t a can opened to quickly grab some this morning but I was fine didn’t feel hungry at all after and was fine until dinner.

1 cup of green tea, I was going to attempt to get in my second but I had a deadline and couldn’t leave my desk until close to home time so then there was no time for a second cup.

Dinner was some kind of chili chicken thing, broccoli and curly fries.

Swimming today. Went well! Just one of those good swims that come up where you can swim hard without dying, it was great.

After that had some chocolate milk.