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i've been figuring things out, and i think the best way to force myself into optimal results is to kind of put myself on blast. i will be posting measurements and photos of my progress and how things are coming (or lack thereof...hopefully not) together.
soon to come :)
one day, hopefully soon, i will have an ass you can bounce quarters off of.
so, yesterday, i accidentally ran out of my thyroid meds and had to skip a dose. i went to pick them up yesterday afternoon and i thought that i was all in the clear.
i weighed myself this morning and i gained FOUR POUNDS IN ONE NIGHT. while on a diet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
dear lady at the gym who was dogging me while i was doing stairs,
i have no idea why you were giving me bitchface. i have even less of an idea of why you decided to wear a ponytail hair extension comb thing to the gym, especially when you already have hair.
however, i do know that karma bit you in the ass when you scratched your head in the sauna and that hair tumbled to the floor next to my feet.
and yes, i enjoyed every second of picking that thing up with two fingers, handing it back to you with a disgusted face, and walking out of the sauna so i could laugh.
sincerely,
me
No, this does not mean that David Bowie is now my personal trainer-- though, I'm not gonna lie and say that would be pretty awesome.
I kept up with my running, even with the shitty Nike+ tracking thing, and ended up just kind of running through horrid-ass shin splints and a burgeoning case of plantar fasciitis. The worst was yet to come, though.
A month-ish ago, I ended up catching pneumonia out of nowhere. By the time I was able to get back to the gym, the combination of my regression and the advancement of my training schedule would mean that I wouldn't be able to train well enough to guarantee that I'd be able to run the whole half marathon.
Because of this, I've decided to switch things up for a while--for now, I've bidded a fond adieu to running. I'm going to start training a little bit later on in the year for either the Rock and Roll Vegas Half (because really, who wouldn't want to go running down the Las Vegas strip?!) or the Carlsbad Half (possibly with the intent to complete the Triple Crown?).
By switching things up, I've been exchanging some of my run time for HIIT and more weights in an effort to up my muscle mass, drop body fat, and condition my body for starting to train again in the fall.
I am still wearing my pretty sweet looking Asics though.
So, in order to hold myself more accountable for my running, I decided to buy one of those Nike + thingies. I don't wear Nike shoes (Asics/Mizuno FO LYFE), but I read that if you throw the bean thing in your shoe, it's pretty reliable and that it maybe will be off by about 0.2 miles, tops.
Whoever wrote that is a goddamn liar.
Yesterday was my first day trying it out. It seemed pretty simple-- just hit the center button to start keeping track of your workout. I hit the button and began my warm-up and run pattern. After about 20 minutes, I looked down at the thing and when I compared the mileage to what was on the treadmill, there was about a 0.65 mile discrepancy. I then stopped the Nike + thing, and broke my run pattern in order to calibrate the thing.
I thought that was the end of my troubles, but I was mistaken. Tonight, I tried it out again, and it didn't even record the first five minutes of my run?!?! After that 5 minutes, it was pretty on par with what I was doing, though. I'm just trying to figure out what could possibly go wrong next. Maybe it will somehow find a way to shock me while I'm running?
In other news, I still haven't registered for the half-marathon yet. I should probably get on that, but in some ways, I'm still trying to psych myself up for it. In the back of my mind, I have mixed opinions; part of me feels like I can definitely make it (albeit, slowly), but another part of me is definitely afraid of not being able to make it through since I've never really done anything like this before.
I guess we'll see how everything goes.
