For the past few years, I have celebrated my birthday by running a 5K with my daughter. This year the tradition continues. Though our Saturday is filled with a ton of activities, we are scheduled to run the Novo Nordisk® Hazel 5KM (Part of the Mississauga Marathon race weekend). Every year I watch as violet gets faster and I get slower. In years past I had hoped to use this race as a springboard to get back into serious running, unfortunately, it hasn’t worked. This year I hope to change that. I’ve started by doing a few warm-up runs., something I never did enough in past years (if I’m being honest I still haven’t done enough). Going forward, this year will be different. I will start regular runs with the goal of running a 10K by the end of summer, or at least another couple of 5ks with one or both of my kids.
I wrote this post on Friday during my trip to and from work. I had hopped to edit and post it on Friday, but with the unexpected date night I never found the time. Yesterday was filled with the trip to the baseball game and an evening at the park, so this morning I found my self looking at my blog wondering what happened to my fitness Friday. So I read it over and finished it up and decided to post it today. I’ve also decided to leave the text as it is, so think of this as if it was posted on friday. I hope to have next weeks fitness Friday actually posted on Friday next week.
As I sit down to write todays post I am unsure of what I want to write. I had planned on discussing the dilemma I am facing about my runs. Should I focus on longer runs, or do more 5ks to try to get my time running 5k down to under 25 minutes. Unfortunately, this week has been terrible for my running. Since last Friday I have only run once. That’s not acceptable. At first it was logistics, not wanting to run after Melissa got home, and not taking the time to ask someone to come site with the kids so I could run. But last night was just laziness. I just didn’t push myself. And so I have done what I never wanted to do, not run in 4 days.
On top of my not running I’ve only been semi successful with my for logging. I have managed to track 60% of what I ate, but I never seemed to track the late night freeze or bag of candy I picked up at the Banana Store. I have cut out some of my snacking and seemed to established a rhythm of tracking my Breakfast and Lunch and the failing to track my dinner and any evening snacks.
My failure to run and to get a handle on my snacking was reflected on the scale this morning, my weight is up over 3 pounds putting above my first weeks weight. I am hoping that seeing the numbers on my blog will help me focus on getting back on track. But I don’t think that’s enough, I need something more. With the prospect of a week camping with the family starting next Sunday looming I know I should establish the habits now so I can carry them through our time away.
It could have been a great week, I have taken the kids to the pool 3 times since Friday, and even went on a ride with the kids in tow. If I had added to that even 2 more runs It would have been a different result this morning. So now I am left scratching my head looking the motivation to get out every night even if that’s at 12am when Melissa gets home from work. Going forward I have a plan, but instead of writing it out here I’ll put it into action and discuss it in next weeks Fitness Friday post.
