Run for the Euphoria

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It was 11 degrees C this morning! Winter is definitely here *insert sad face*

But when Bertie started wriggling around and woke me at 6.15am rather than grumble and roll back over to try for a few more ZZZZ I jumped out of bed and went for a run..and it was still dark and cold and drab!

It was a short 3km to get me back in the swing of things and I walked a few hundred metres in there, but I was really proud of my time….its actually a PB

I ran 3km in 15.37min an average speed of 11 km an hour and my best km was only 4.54 minutes. My usual pace is a slow and steady 8-10kmph or 7-6 minute kilometres.

Being out and about this morning before the sun rose reminded me of how much I love running, and exercising, but golly it was chilly and tomorrow is tipped to be a lovely 4 degrees C.

As of this morning I’m following the intermediate training plan posted on the City to Surf website. It includes gradual increments in both speed and distance and is targeted for those who run regularly. While I haven’t been running regularly like I mentioned yesterday I have kept my sport up and I’d rather push myself harder now and get myself used to running again.

I love feeling motivated and the post exercise euphoria leaves me feeling as if I could take on the world….if only I could convince the scale to move in the right direction then all would be perfect in my little world.

I Will Try

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try”

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Last year I ran the City to Surf – a 12km charity run, starting in the city ending at the surf (J) in 1 hour 11 mins and 23 seconds

 Last year I was running 6km every day

 This year I have not run once

 This year I am playing sport 4 times a week, Basketball, Netball, Volleyball and a gym class on the weekends

 This year I want to run the City to Surf in 1 hour 5 minutes

 Today I am deciding to try!

Thankyou Tuesday

I’ve always thought of Tuesdays as terrible.

Monday is expected to be bleak; the weekend is over and its time to go back to school/work/monotony.  Even worse the thought of a full five days looming ahead of you until you can enjoy the lovely carefree feelings of Friday afternoon and a weekend spent with loved ones.  so with the expectation of a bad day, I tend to not notice just how mediocre Monday’s often are.

In reality Mondays aren’t that bad…my diet is always successful on a Monday, a result of getting my act together after a ‘terrible’ weekend of food and drink, the morning at work passes blissfully by as co-workers chat of their fabulous weekends as we work away in our cubicles and 5 a side indoor netball on Monday nights is great fun.

This morning…Tuesday – I woke at my usual time, rolled over and fell asleep. I didn’t go for the run I had promised myself, I didn’t clean up the puppy chaos spread across every square inch of my living room, I didn’t prepare tonight’s dinner to go into the slow cooker…instead I slept and woke up rather late and as a result rushed around the house causing my own brand of chaos.

The empty milk carton is on the bench, breadcrumbs litter the floor and Im sure there is a wet towel in the middle of my wardrobe entrance. The weather is a miserable gloom of clouds and a constant stream of rain and traffic was hideous.  Amid traffic frustration I depleted my already low iphone battery by randomly flicked through suggested blog rolls and was pleasantly surprised to stumble across THXTHXTHX (the surprise being that I felt pleasantly anything on a morning like this mornings)

But what a lovely surprise!!! THXTHXTHX – A Thankyou Note a Day is a blog created and maintained by the talented Leah Dieterich, each day she posts a thankyou note for one thing she is thankful for at that particular moment.
This simple yet wonderful concept started me thinking of how negative I have been lately and of all the wonderful things in my life of which I truly am thankful for yet seem to be swamped by those that daunt and overwhelm and depress me.
Taking this realisation a step further I readjusted my thoughts for this morning
1. I slept in and had to rush to get out of the house leaving behind a massive mess OR I had a much needed sleep in and still left the house on time with clean hair and there are no expected visitors today anyway

2. My weight is much higher than Im comfortable with OR My weight is 400grm lower than yesterday and I had an ok food day yesterday

3. Traffic held me up and I was late for work OR Traffic held me up, allowing me to browse blog rolls on my iphone and allowing me to stumble across THXTHXTHX

4. I didn’t get my promised run in so I’m lazy and mediocre and will stay fat forever OR My manager isn’t in today, I can skip my lunch break and leave work a little early and make it to STEP tonight burning just as many calories and catch up with some gym buddies at the same time

So all in all my negative depressive thoughts can be turned around to positives and this Tuesday really isn’t so terrible. And once the day at work is through and I have been to my step class I will go home to my husband give him a big kiss and tell him how thankful I am for his love and his support and for just being him

xoxo

New Beginnings

I never know how to start these things, there is so much I want to say so much to delve into and when you take into account not knowing what direction to take it becomes a mental mine field and I end up right back here at the beginning not knowing what to say.

I guess first is the introduction…Hi my name is Mrs W and I am Female 24 and Married

 Then comes the interests…I like to bake, knit, run, sleep and eat. I play basketball, netball, and as of Thursday volleyball.

 Then comes the family situation…I am married to the wonderful Mr W, we have a newly adopted puppy called Bert, and we have just built our own house and are slowly turning it into a home. I have one brother and one sister, one sister in law and one soon to be brother in law – SIL and soon to be BIL have two furbabies of their own so I guess I have one neice and one nephew too.

Then the dirty… I have struggled with many forms of eating related issues over the past few years mostly stemming from a terrible body image and lack of self confidence, however I have no idea where the body image and self confidence issues came from nor can I pin point a moment in time when they decided to rear their ugly head.

 But new beginnings are upon us…new house, new husband, new puppy, new car and soon to be a new job also so why not have a new attitude a healthier prettier attitude?

Well that’s the end of that insufferable intro post and now we can get onto the fun stuff, and by fun I mean long winded random rambling posts about puppies, husbands, knitting, baking, running, making our house a home and somewhere along the line developing a sane and realistic body image

Until next time…