Running
Wow. It’s been almost a week since my last post. I should apologize, at least to myself, for this. I aim to make two posts each week, and continue to do so consistently. My oh my, we’re off to quite a bad start. No worries! Let’s improve it.
In this post, I want to talk about my running. I have started going to gym for the past month of so after a long hiatus (around 3 months. I know! It’s winter!). So far it’s been good, and I’ve been concentrating on building endurance. I aim to go 3 times each week, with 2 of them at the gym, and the other one with Badminton as a variation.
So far, I’ve managed to go 3 times a week (YAY!) except for last week. Last week I missed Saturday Badminton and this week I missed Gym Monday (no~ I do not intend to give them names! This is purely for definition only.)
I have legitimate reasons for these absence (albeit it still is lame to come up with excuses):
- Overexercise
Unfortunately, this week I have overestimated my abilities by deciding to increase the level of my training by 2 points (1-20 scale). I was a bit bored and feeling like I needed to challenge myself more. But turns out, my body wasn’t strong enough to handle the change. As a result, after 2 sessions, my body was starting to get really tired and even though I had a long sleep (10 hours!) I was still not getting my stamina back. On Sunday I decided that I should still to go despite my tiredness and I was already on the treadmill when I figured that I am simply too tired and I needed to get some rest. That’s why last week I only go for 2 sessions instead of the target 3. - Upset stomach
On Monday, after a good rest and good sleep, I was feeling alright, even great. But then suddenly my stomach got upset and I was feeling bad. I thought I might have food poisoning or something, but turns out that a nice cup of tea helped calm my stomach. However, still I felt that I shouldn’t push my body right after it got its stamina back. I figured I should give it a bit more rest before going to exercise again.
And after all these excuses, here I am! No more excuses, no more stomachache. So today I decided that it’s time for me to get back on my feet again. I didn’t go to gym today, but I went for a run near my neighborhood. I admit I’m getting a bit bored by going to gym and needed some variation, therefore jogging outdoors seem to be a good idea.
At first I wasn’t sure that the weather is nice and warm enough for me to jog. But you know what, I’ve seen people do it so I figured why can’t I do it. And second of all, if you keep waiting for nice weather, well! In England that doesn’t happen very often you know :) So I just went and did it.
It was bloody cold. I thought it would get warmer as I run~ but it’s a lie. I’m telling you, LIE! Ok not that bad. But it didn’t get as warm as I would like it to.
And turns out, after checking my route on Google Maps, I was running for something like 3.5 miles. That’s 5K :) :) So that’s good. Very good. But I was struggling with my breath and stamina so I need to improve that.
But overall I’m very happy with my progress, especially that I’m also watching what I eat. More on that later.
So tomorrow I might run again to make up for last monday. And then Friday off.
Coolio :)
Yiipppieee :)
So what’s the conclusion for today’s post?
- 2 Posts each week, consistently.
- Running / exercise ~ 3 times a week. Still on!
- Good progress, should give myself a congratulations. Congratulations, Dania :)
- Watch what I eat ~ I even keep a diary. Keep doing it!
Until next time!
