I don't wanna!

I have finally hit it....the proverbial Brick Wall!!! I don't want to go to the gym today. It is too stinkin' hot outside and I don't even want to get in my car. I feel like a whiny baby who doesn't want to do anything. I don't want to get on the tread mill because I'm bored with it, but I will die if I have to run outside. I took that on yesterday.

After the hubby and I had lunch I ran home from the restaurant. It was about 5.5 miles from the house, but it was lunch time ( the hottest part of the day. ) No Shade. All Sun! I brought water with me, but it just wasn't enough. All the ice melted by mile 3, then the water was just getting warmer and warm water doesn't quench thirst. I told hubby to come find me on a specific route if I wasn't home in an hour. I was hoping he would start his search party early because I was DYING of heat exhaustion, but my hubby and his punctual self, came up the street exactly 1 hour into my Nike+ timed run. However, by this time I was almost home so I finished in 1:07:00. It was way too hot! and I won't be doing that again for a long time...it was just stupid. Not even the boring tred mill can get me to do that again.

I'm still not in the mood to run right now, but the schedule for the rest of the day doesn't warrant any other time to run. I just have to buck up and do it. I'm sure there are days olympic athletes don't want to train, but they still get up for their all day work- outs. The least I can do is get to the gym. I have to get at least 6 miles before I sleep.

Update: I only did 3 miles

PAIN

Pain. My body hurts. My muscles have that good hurt you get after you've worked out or rather when you've done a few too many squats and it hurts to sit and pee. I'm trying to run a lot of hills and train for the elevation. The hubby and I will be running a 10-k race in the mountains of COLORADO. We will be up against the elements: heat, hills, and the lack of oxygen you get when doing anything in the Rockies.

A few years ago, the hubby and I flew out to Steamboat Springs, CO for a vacation.

While there, we were feeling ambitious to take in the beauty of the mountains through

the leisure activity of mountain biking. We hopped on the two- wheeled transportation and went racing down the side of the mountain we were staying on, noticing it wasn't as easy to breathe with no effort, but didn't pay it much mind. However, on our way into town for breakfast on the bikes we did exert a little more energy and noticed how DIFFICULT it was to catch our breath. Neither part of our winded excursion compared to that of trying to make it back up the mountain to get home. It was as though we were trying to breathe through non-exsistent fish lungs in the Sahara Desert. So with this memory still so vivid, I'm now questioning my idea to run a 6.2 mile race during the middle of the summer (July 3) in the same location and elevation. Oh well, the registrations are already paid for, so we are doing it! This is why my body is in such pain now- hoping it will deliver a less painful/ more successful finish in July!

Right now I am dealing with a less envious type of pain: Blisters! My feet are full of them. I know- GROSS- Right? But it is the price of so many miles. If I am determined to reach this 2010 mile goal, I have to run through the pain. The blisters started about 3 days ago. I can't say that they have been getting worse, but they sure aren't getting any better. I know it is weird, but I am hoping they turn into calluses soon. This has to be a metaphor for something- having painful blisters that you work through /in spite of only to be come hard and stronger so you can no longer feel the pain. (ooh, that's good!) I guess I am destined to become a stronger runner and the blisters are just one stage I have to go through :) Well I have to get back out on the road and I have at least 7 miles to go before I sleep.

P.S.- I hit 7.75 miles!!

400

400

I've just reached another milestone! I'm trying to get back on the running wagon to reach my goal and am getting closer by the day. Being a teacher, is the greatest thing for exercise since Richard Simmons! I have all the time in the world to hit the gym or the pavement since I don't have to work and nobody to check in with except the hubby (who is not a teacher and has to work his 40 hours!)

With the RAW foods diet still kicking and the miles I've been putting in, I am down 7 pounds and feeling great! I am even thinking about attempting the most dreaded female task of.... BATHING SUIT SHOPPING. Yuck! IF only I could go after summer is over and I have hit a lot of the fitness and weight goals I am aiming for. I suppose that would defeat the purpose, considering I need one now. Wish me luck because I have a lot of junk in this trunk that I need to hide and many more...

miles to go before I sleep.