The Evening Run Day 1

I ended up having to take another day off yesterday because I was fixing dinner. Tonight was my first run of the week. I ended up doing fourty two minutes with a seven minute cool down. That is not bad. I was stuck at thirty minutes because I recently increased the duration of my running interval. I went from doing one minute of running to two minutes. My endurance had to increase. Today marks the longest day I have done so far.

I find that my body needs to warm up for twenty minutes (I am running at this point) before the work out starts to feel easier. Before twenty minutes I am dragging, my legs feel like dead weight and I huff and puff. After twenty minutes it becomes easier. I can run a bit faster and the two minutes does not seem like an eternity. I have no idea why that is. I just accept it.

I was up one pound when I weighed myself last. I had not eaten anything that day. So, I suppose it was acurate. I was pissed off about it. I have worked my rear end off trying to lose it and I went up one pound. Why?
I was in the doctors office that day and I was pacing back and forth thinking, "Just calm down. It is only one pound. It is not that big of a deal."

It was a big deal to me. However, I do not think it such a big deal in the long run. Like I said, it was just a pound. My endurance is increasing. I am starting to notice a difference in how my clothes feel. In fact, I look a tiny bit slimmer through the mid section. My sister Cassie calls it my doughiness. Well, give it six months and there will not be much dough there. Ha!