urgh i skipped work today.....i'm tempted to call in and quit but i will persevere through the most boring hellish crappy....hmm trying to think of synonyms for just bad and terrible and depressing and completely so incredibly boring that i want to throw up at regular intervals during the day. i guess that is descriptive enough....damn credit card bills. i dont know what i am going to do...somehow i have a mountain of credit card debt...sigh i know stupid and all too common these days...and a terrible low paying job that i am altogether sick of....job market is bad....blah blah etc etc
in more interesting news....interesting to me at least =/
....yuck...sorry if its boring just skip this part lol
i had a super duper workout today, i was so proud. it was one of those days where everything just feels right and it all comes together for some reason....
first i walked for 20 minutes on the treadmill on about 4.0-4.2 to warm up.....i get this terrible pain in my shins walking but if i walk to warm up and stretch every five minutes or so it goes away and makes jogging much easier.
so THEN after walking for 20 minutes i jogged on 5.7 for five minutes and then raised the speed 1 mph every five minutes except for hmm one or two five minute intervals where i raised it twice...but long story short i jogged for thirty minutes and ended at 6.3 mph
yay. i was excited
i haven't tried to work out if this is correct but the treadmill said i did 4 miles in 46 minutes and then by the time i finished it was maybe 4.25 miles or a little over or something.
the reason i'm excited is because my next goal will be jogging for a full hour at no less than a 10 minute mile speed - 6.0 setting however it works out
so
that is what i'm working towards, one day it will happen!
and then i lifted weights and felt all strong and hot. and that was that
i was feeling bad about taking two days off and maybe eating a little more than i should have but hey at least the food went to a good cause.....fueling good exercise and muscles like to rest so its all good.
i guess i feel a little anxious about being away from the gym now because i really don't want to fall back into the abyss of laziness that trapped me before. and i'm so psyched to see such improvement...one month ago i couldn't run a block to save my life practically and now feeling strong and on the way back to being fit, its like instant gratification somehow and i am scared of losing gains...although i know it goes both ways....1 step forward, 2 steps back.
sorry to be so longwinded. once i get into something its like obsession!
maybe i'm still in the honeymoon phase, i hope it doesnt end!
ok enough babbling
kempy hope you're continuing to feel better. its never fun to lose your voice. get well soon!
ceejay....man that is so rough. stay strong. i never know what to say when people have sad stories. *big hug*