Resolutions Resolved

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. – E. Joseph Cossman

The end is near… at least the end of this year!

Resolution Run by Brita & Running Room
December 31 Run: 39:22 (mm:ss), 5.05 km, 7’47″/km

I’m excited to end off a Year with a run. Seeing my tags for my posts with “New Years Resolution” still being one of the larger ones means I’ve kind of succeeded! I’ve continued running this entire year! I have gone for at least 1 run every month this year!! I can’t wait to set new goals for the New Year. I’ve been reading a bunch of inspiring and touching year-end recaps and excited goals for the New Year, I wish you all the best! Your stories and blogs inspire me to continue.

Tonight’s run was at the pace that is comfortable to me without my spikes… didn’t think I would need them since I thought it was a regular “race” but we ran the sidewalks and was following pedestrian rules. The sidewalks were a little dangerous with ice and snow all around so we were all being “slower” and more careful with each step. Although I kept the same pace as my last run, my average heart rate was ridiculously higher than my average, guess I really ran my heart out! There’s no medal or anything but a super cool race jacket! I am so thankful for all of the volunteers, Brita, and all of the staff at the Burlington Running Room (and anyone else who may have been involved).

Thank you runrchatts for doing this run with me! I remember a few months back I didn’t want to do this alone since it was at 5 PM race and I had to go to work this morning so I signed him up and asked him to join me 🙂 Thank you for running my pace as well.

I am a runner. A slow runner. I might be going slower than a snail who’s stuck in peanut butter but I am still moving and proud of it!

This has been an amazing year with a lot of amazing victories: my first 10k, my second 10k, a couple of 5ks in the mix, and a whole lot of money raised for causes I believe in. The only resolution that has been left unresolved is my weight – I started and will be ending the year weighing the exact same. I’m not too bummed out about this since I feel much healthier than I did last year! 🙂
I am off to plan out my New Year and decide on the runs I’d like to do, volunteer for, and charities/causes I’d like to raise some funds for.

Have a fantastic New Year!!!

rundmach

New Week

Hi Everyone,

I have a lot to say tonight but I’ll start off with tonight’s run info:

January 21 Run: 32 minutes, 2.16 miles (3.5 km)

This week I begin training with the 10k for Pink program. This is a 14 week program but I’ve chosen to start at Week 4 feeling the first 4 weeks may have been a bit too slow pace for me. The program says you can start anywhere if you’ve ran before and even encourages starting at week 8 for those who have ran 5k. I haven’t ran 5 k in a while at once, so I thought I’d start halfway to that.

The program was pretty easy today: 5 minute warm up, 3 minute run, 90 second walk, 5 minute run, 2.5 minute walk, 3 minute run, 90 second walk, 5 minute run, and 5 minute cool down. I’m actually not tired at all and feel I can do more. The program is suggesting to run 3 times a week. Since I’d like to run more, I might alter the program by doing work out #2 of each week twice, or turning my weeks into 5 day weeks (run one, rest one, run one, rest one, etc.), or run 3 times a week with Saturday and Sunday being rest days as well… The plan itself doesn’t specify when to take the days off but just to do 3 runs in one week. I’m not sure what’s best but I know sticking to this running plan is a good idea. I’ll have to do some more reading and research.

After my last post, my brother, the physiotherapist, suggested that I maintain my training with a good program changing only either time or speed but never both at once. Although by the the second running interval, I wanted to up my speed because I knew I could run faster, I caught myself and quickly lowered the speed before it really started. I couldn’t up the speed or time because I had ran on an incline today. I normally run at 0 but I did a slight 0.5 incline to hopefully help build stamina. My friend, Robert, reminded me that even on a downhill run, when we get to flat patches, that will feel very different, and even suggested running hills to train. I need to get my body comfortable running at different elevations so I started with a small incline.

I’m really thankful for all my followers and friends on here looking out for me. THANK YOU! ❤

I was planning on running Sunday but I ended up spending a later day with my family and got home a little too late, or so I thought. I couldn’t sleep last night! All I kept doing was waking up wishing I had ran, feeling like I wasn’t all that tired because I didn’t use all of my energy to run. It wasn’t like I was going to get on the treadmill at 2 am; my surrounding neighbours in the apartment wouldn’t feel too great if I did. I don’t mind that I didn’t run, I had a great time playing cards with my family. I have all week to run. 🙂

Like I said, this is going to be a long one…

Over the weekend, I went shoe shopping for runners! It was a pretty successful weekend. The people at the Running Room are amazing and helped me out as they always have. I even scored a sweet 20% off from the Running Room magazine; this helps since this place is pretty pricey for me! I ended up trying a couple pairs on hoping to try a new running shoe/brand. In the end, I got my same runners in a newer version, the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 13. My old ones are the 10s… I’m really excited about them! Today’s run in them was the first wear and everything felt pretty good. A little stiff in the left foot but that may have just been the lacing. These shoes just felt the best on my foot compared to all the other ones. It’s tough for me finding regular shoes let alone a good pair of running shoes. Go Brooks!


Scored a few other sweet items over the weekend.

Anyways, I think I have covered everything I wanted to post tonight.
Thanks for reading my long post! Just had a lot to say.

I hope you have yourself a wonderful night/day!

Sincerely,
Diana