I simply CANNOT believe it has been over 3 months since I have updated this thing! That is just crazy to me as I was pretty good about doing this when I first started writing this thing.
There have been some changes since I last wrote here. Tristan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary in New Orleans and had an extremely amazing time doing some amazing things. I kind of freaked out because they thought we were going to see some hurricane action, not talking about the drink here folks, but all we say from it was rain. During the holiday season, I tried doing a mile a day running streak but the flu had different plans for me. I actually got the flu for the first time since I was a teenager and it sucked. At that doctors appointment, I was tested for asthma and found out I actually have asthma. I suspected this once it got cold out because I would come home from a run all wheezy like so I'm super glad to have an inhaler for this now.
Since getting the inhaler, I haven't ran nearly as much as I would like although that has been more of a weather thing than anything else. This morning for instance it was 17 degrees when I woke up and that cold air just hurts my lungs so I can't really run. Shelly and I have started doing a 20 minute walk since the GPS on my phone didn't really work in the concrete slab that is our building so we can't say we just walk a mile. I am pretty sure it is a little over a mile but since I can't really figure that out without pulling out the building schematics we just do the 20 minutes before kickboxing.
One of the biggest things to have happened since the last time I wrote was that I did a 5k in under 35 minutes. I'm still having a hard time processing this fact. That day was a perfect day for running though. It was about 55 degrees outside, bright and sunny, and I did a different route that was so flat compared to my normal route. The pups and I just wanted to keep going and it was awesome. Since that day, I haven't been able to match that speed because of some shin pain but I have no doubt I will be close to that again soon.
So here are my goals for fitness in 2014:
Run between 500-750 miles this year. I gave myself a range because I have pledged to do at least 500 in a virtual run that is to get people from all over the world to pledge miles to be able to say that as a group we ran to Venus. I know that is corny but I thought it was a cool idea. My ultimate goal is 750 which is a little over the distance from Memphis to the Canadian border.
Train for and run my first Half-Marathon. I want this to be done at Shelby Farms Park in October. This summer I will probably be changing my runs on Saturdays to runs in the park and that makes me uber excited about it.
Do 4 kickboxing classes every week. This will be my 3rd week of doing at least 4 classes a week and I can already tell a big difference.
Add more fruits and vegetables to the diet. In order to do this, I started making smoothies in the morning as my breakfast during the work week and trying to add more veggies to our suppers since we have leftovers for lunch every day. I'm still working on adding more veggies to dinner but this is a growing process lol
Thanks for reading my rambles.
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