Waking Up Beautiful

I’m back..is anyone still here?!

So Sunday I woke up not feeling the best. I decided Id run after my short shift at work but while I was at work I got a crazy migrane and when I got home i could barely function so I decided to take a rest day. No worries because after 7days of running a rest day was needed anyway.

I learned this weekend that the temp. Was going to spike this week so Iv been a bit nervous about how this was going to affect my running. So today after work given the insane humidity and heat ,my friend (who is currently pregnant) and I decided itd be in out best interest to go out for a long walk instead of running. So we walked a good long walk, sweating like crazy in the heat but still active. Hopefully tomorrow I can get back to atleast a mile in the heat but we shall see. I just want to keep eating well and stay active! Staying on track doesnt mean perfection with running but rather not falling back into laziness!

Today was a lazy day.. i didnt want to so much of anything honestly.. but i did.. i forced myself up and into the heat to complete another 1.5 miles non stop! I really dreaded going out into the heat today to run but at the end of my run with .10 of a mile left my neighbor walking her dog yelled “your so ambitious”! It kinda made me laugh and i yelled back “Im training for a half marathon”... and in that moment I realized that come heat, cold, wind, rain i need to be out there pushing myself.

So today was my day off from work and I was up early to take my mom to her appt this morning so I was a little anxious about how my day was going to go. Shockingly i stuck to my guns and ate normal (well what Iv been eating for the past week) and came home; napped the day away because hello I love sleep! When I woke up I thought hmm to run or not to run... RUN!

Today was day 3 of getting back into running. I ran .75 of a mile straight, walked, then ran the last .10 of the mile for a total of .85 run of that mile! Its awesome that im progressing so much in only 3 days back at it!

Today was a hard one.. it was one of those days that I came home and did not want to run. I was trying to convince myself that I needed a rest day or that maybe I’d go later and then another voice would agrue that “no, you know you wont” and “if you have a rest day already you know you’ll stop again”. Somehow that tiny voice won and I quickly changed and headed out my front door. I rushed so my mind didn’t have time to talk me out of it. And I’m so thankful I went!!