Fat Girl Running Diary (Week One)

Hi! So, I wanted a place to not annoy people with every workout post I make. Instead, I think I keep a small diary page on my blog about it. That way I can look back and see improvements or losses without posting every single day about my run.

Monday, March 4th, 2019 - 
Should have been my first workout day back after the 'not-a-hernia' excursion. I had an entire month of rest because the doctor told me to chill. It was a letdown and I've been feeling uncomfortable and sad with no place to put all my hyper energy. Which oddly, I have a lot of. Anyway, the only workout I got this day was minimal walking around and eating way too many carbs. We drove many hours to get a new car.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 -
This is my first workout day and I felt like an eagle soaring on the dreadmill. It's too icy to try and run outside. I modified the workout. It should have been a cardio and strength day but I knew that would be too hard. Instead, I slowly ran 30 mins and made it about roughly 2 miles. Of course, the treadmill is old and it does track and my fitness band is also old and very inaccurate. Who knows how far I actually ran. Either way, I felt good.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 -
Today I eased back into the workout plan again but doing a gentle core and flexibility plan. It was only 20 mins. I felt bad about it but I did a lot of house cleaning.

Thursday, March 7th, 2019 -
Omg. I am so mad. This day is the cardio and strength day. I'm supposed to do a warmup, then alternate between running and strength moves. The warmup exhausted me and then I forgot to run between the strength moves. It was 30 mins but I was so exhausted I could barely do the workouts. I was only able to do 2 Army crawls and barely staggered stance. I tried to comfort myself with the knowledge that its' also shark week. Which makes me tired/bloated but in fairness, I'm just mad at the backslide of skill loss. Considering signing up for several races at the end of this month.

Friday, March 8th, 2019 - 
I'm so uncomfortable. PCOS can make you have a very heavy lady time. My legs are so sore I can't even stand up without pain. Ibuprofen and jumped on the treadmill. Pushed myself to do the full 41 mins but I took a 2 min break after every ten mins. Only did 3 miles according to the old fitness band. So, I'm irritated. I want to be better. I want to be strong. Tomorrow is just strength. I don't want to do more squats. I need to be very careful not to consume more carbs. I don't need em and they made me sick last time. Today is a fish day anyway. I want to go to the movies. I wonder if we can.

Saturday, March 9th, 2019 - 
Today was busy. I didn't get a traditional workout in but I did walk around and work a lot.

Sunday, March 10th, 2019- 
This day is a much-needed rest day. I did nothing.

Why Did I Start Running?

I was never athletic because I believed that I couldn't be. Which was wrong.

I've gotten older and realized I am an athletic person and I had missed out on so many opportunities as a girl only because people told me I was a girl, I wasn't strong enough, I was not made for it, I was born clumsy.

Sometimes my own fears would get in the way. The only one who ever encouraged me for the long term was my little brother.

Then he became injured and I happened to see a virtual 5k for brain injury on my advertisement page on FB. That was about a year or so ago.

Anyway, I signed up against my better judgment. I ended up at the track... dropped off by my hubby who thought I was crazy. So, there I was alone... fighting with my own demons walking for my brother when my heart broke thinking... he can't do this sort of thing anymore. What a blessing I have in my own body. I tried running for the first time and I was shocked that I couldn't even run a full minute. Later I was in so much pain I had to ice bath even though I didn't even run a lot.

I thought that I was done but like a light switch... I desired to run more. I bought an entire running outfit and started to train. I could not do the c25k program yet so I worked on my goal being able to run a minute and then more and more until I was running!

I joined more races and people saw how happy I was. Then my husband joined me and since the thing I've been working on my own personal running goals. When I'm sick because of PCOS or Hashimoto's and complications that go with those it helps me to know that I can be strong on the race track. I run with six different awareness ribbons. Some for myself and some for my family.