Week 2!

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”- Deep Roy

I had to become my own cheerleader in order to have the courage to actually train for this dang thing. Mental toughness is something I’ve always struggled at, so this was a true test of how tough I could be.

After week one of training, I realized I should probably incorporate some sort of exercise that wasn’t running into my regime. I also needed access to a good treadmill that wasn’t the 20 year old one in my basement at home, or the one 45 minutes away from me at my boyfriends apartment, and in February in Minnesota, you can’t rely on being able to run outside.

I checked out the local Anytime Fitness which was right behind my work and got a free week trial going, I also scoped out a yoga studio with my co worker and set up a punch card for a few good stretching sessions of flow yoga.

So for week two I began with a mile and a half run on Monday after work at Anytime Fitness (AF) and IT WAS TERRIBLE. My legs were so tired from being on my feet at work all day (my apple watch said I had 12 miles on the day before the run…uuffda) that it was so difficult. All I had to do was run a mile and a half, and I couldn’t. I probably could have if I was stronger mentally, but I stopped every quarter of a mile for a 15-30 second rest in order to get the mileage in. Week 2 got off to a rough start.

Tuesday morning I headed to yoga for an hour, and let the tough first run of the week roll off my back through the relaxation and stretching, it was so helpful.

Wednesday brought another two miler, and a big blizzard. So this meant I was stuck at home on the 20 year old treadmill. Once again, I had a rough run, I stopped multiple times throughout the two miles and was extremely frustrated with myself, but nevertheless I got the two in.

Saturday came and it brought my next long run, a two and a half miler. I decided to make sure I was at my boyfriends apartment for this one lol. I decided that I HAD to do this one without stopping. I got too lazy this week and needed to have a good run again to stay somewhat on track. It was a test of my mental and physical strength, the first two miles felt pretty good. The last half mile was tough, my legs were tired and I was loosing my drive to finish it out, but I knew I would be even more upset if I didn’t just finish it after getting this close. So, I completed my first two and a half miler since the 5k!

Bring on week 3!!