Saturday morning I participated in my first group run with Runners World Tulsa and it was so much better than I have anticipated! I met a friend to run with and it made it go by much quicker having someone to talk to while I ran. I've never been a big fan of running with other people, but I realized how encouraging and motivating it can be. It's a lot harder to say "I need a break" when you run with a partner than when you're alone. I'm looking forward to making more "running friends" now!
Tonight is group run #2, and I'm a little more nervous about this one. I think the heat index is about 105 today, so that 5:30 sunshine is going to be pretty tough on us, I have a feeling. Hoping I make it through...
Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Rough week
Training was tough this week! Ran about 5 miles in the last couple days, but my hips are giving me the usual trouble. You know, painful burning about a half mile in, only increasing as I go...something to look forward to on this journey.
First group run is tomorrow morning at 6:45 a.m., which I'm actually really looking forward to! It's so much easier to run in a group than getting stuck doing it alone. Excited to meet my run leaders and fellow group members...and to run a fun new route to start off my Saturday!
Let's do this.
First group run is tomorrow morning at 6:45 a.m., which I'm actually really looking forward to! It's so much easier to run in a group than getting stuck doing it alone. Excited to meet my run leaders and fellow group members...and to run a fun new route to start off my Saturday!
Let's do this.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Day One
There's a chance that nobody will ever see this. (Unless I decide to post it on Facebook, which, let's be honest, is probably inevitable. Because even as much as no one cares about what I'm blogging about, there's still a chance they'll be polite enough to click on my pathetically unenticing link and hopefully, at the very least, throw out a few words of encouragement of which I will be in desperate need of throughout this journey.)
That said - I've decided to run a half marathon. Which sounds absolutely absurd coming out of my mouth. Mostly because...I don't run. I'm terrible at running - my hips start hurting after a couple of days (I'm like an 80-year-old woman) and I get horrible shin splints(both of which I'm likely to complain about). I get out of breath easily, I hate the heat, I've never been even remotely athletic (Unbeknownst to me until I didn't make the 7th grade basketball team and heartbreakingly sobbed of embarassment for hours. Years later my mother would tell me she was not all that surprised when I didn't make the team, as I was pretty much terrible in my elementary years in the "Optimist Basketball League". Optimist. Beauty in irony, right?) Needless to say, running has never been my forte'.
But I, like many others before me, put on a few pounds in my college years, and another couple since I graduated last year. And I, like many others, have told myself over and over again that "today's the day!" I'm going to start working out and eating right, and yet, somehow that keeps turning into tomorrow. And as someone with low will power, I need this goal to get me motivated and to get started in the right direction to keeping up with a healthy lifestyle. I also need this blog. So I can share with everyone what and how I'm doing...so I can be held accountable. So I can't quit. Which means, today, really is "the day." Because I've signed up for the Route 66 Half Marathon, and I've enrolled in the "Runner's World" training group, and tonight I will run my first three miles of this five-month training program, and according to the running schedule, the first of about 500 total miles by November. WHAT!?!? 500??? Couldn't I just run the 13 and call my goal complete? Kidding....
-Hayley
That said - I've decided to run a half marathon. Which sounds absolutely absurd coming out of my mouth. Mostly because...I don't run. I'm terrible at running - my hips start hurting after a couple of days (I'm like an 80-year-old woman) and I get horrible shin splints(both of which I'm likely to complain about). I get out of breath easily, I hate the heat, I've never been even remotely athletic (Unbeknownst to me until I didn't make the 7th grade basketball team and heartbreakingly sobbed of embarassment for hours. Years later my mother would tell me she was not all that surprised when I didn't make the team, as I was pretty much terrible in my elementary years in the "Optimist Basketball League". Optimist. Beauty in irony, right?) Needless to say, running has never been my forte'.
But I, like many others before me, put on a few pounds in my college years, and another couple since I graduated last year. And I, like many others, have told myself over and over again that "today's the day!" I'm going to start working out and eating right, and yet, somehow that keeps turning into tomorrow. And as someone with low will power, I need this goal to get me motivated and to get started in the right direction to keeping up with a healthy lifestyle. I also need this blog. So I can share with everyone what and how I'm doing...so I can be held accountable. So I can't quit. Which means, today, really is "the day." Because I've signed up for the Route 66 Half Marathon, and I've enrolled in the "Runner's World" training group, and tonight I will run my first three miles of this five-month training program, and according to the running schedule, the first of about 500 total miles by November. WHAT!?!? 500??? Couldn't I just run the 13 and call my goal complete? Kidding....
-Hayley
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