- workouts are hard.
- weighing and counting food is... not the most fun.
- feeling the support of a community of brave, empowered souls who are feeling the same thing is awesome!
Hey! here's something I learned this week- it's partly a confession actually... so I ran on Wednesday... on... a fancynewtreadmillatmygym. there I said it. but here's what was great- I learned that I pushed myself harder on that machine than I did on running outside last week.
Quick sidebar: I have slipped a bit in the past few months on my running- no excuses? I found plenty of them! but I keep reminding myself that I'm training a puppy- that's me- and I'm back in it again to work at really creating new patterns for myself.
So what I really appreciated about this fancy new treadmill was that I could keep track of my pace and steadily increase as I proceeded through the run... I became aware of the fact that I'm not at a place with my cardio work yet to be able to steadily increase my pace the entire way, I had to pull off a touch in the 40-50 minute range, I just don't have the endurance built up yet. I figure I can use the machine on Wednesdays for a while to help train me and push me. Like I said, no way would I have pushed myself as hard on my own yesterday.
Now for the "attachment disclaimer". If, for whatever reason I can't get to the gym, or it's a beautiful day or whatever the reason- I will freely abandon the plan to run outside... I just think for the next few weeks I can learn a lot from it.
Train that puppy!!
2 comments:
Jen,
Love the revamped blog! Also, LOVE the picture. You rock!
Peace,
Chris
Jen, the treadmill is the same for me sometimes. Yesterday was one of those days. I was able to concentrate on pushing myself to the 8-9 RPE range instead of whether the next step would either land me in an oncoming car or on my rump! I am glad that it's there for our use when it feels right!
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