I love to run.
I feel like it's a drug and I can't wait to get my next fix.
Sprinting up hills makes my day ;)
I'd like to think I'm tough as nails, but don't we all?
Right now I'm on a marathon kick, I'm always looking for some kind of race. Recently I've gotten into triathlons, that's what I'll be chasing next.
Chrissie Wellington and Kara Goucher are my heroes <3
After a year of injuries in 2011 and finally recovering, I decided to take the leap and become a Personal Trainer. There's nothing more important to me than fitness and health. I would love nothing more than to achieve my goals and help others reach their maximum potential and achieve theirs as well.
My ultamite goal is to do an Ironman.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Almost puked during my run! Tis a job well done.
I was planning on a long run to City Park today, I’ve literally been dreaming of doing so. No such luck.
Not even before a mile elapsed I had really sharp ankle pain. Yay! The joys of having screwed your ankle up, the pain doesn’t ever go away. I didn’t want to suffer an entire run and hurt it more so I improvised.
Mile 1: Pure run; 8:29, best mile since recovering from all my injuries. Not too bad, but I was close to getting a sub 7 last year before all of the fun. I’ll get there.
Mile 1-1.5: I found a hill and decided it would be fun to do hill sprints. Mind you, I LOVE sprinting up hills, I honestly just think it’s fun, but there was something different about this hill, I knew it the second I sprinted up it. This was freaking huge. Not distance wise, it was actually rather short, but incline.
Pretty much imagine this: /
That was the biggest incline I’ve ever run up, it was insane. I probably didn’t look like I was running too fast, but my god was I pumping as hard as I possibly could. My Garmin only recorded me running about .03 or .04 going down and up, so I’m sure you can imagine how many times I had to do run it to get to half a mile. This is where I almost puked!
Mile 1.5-2: I was tired of that and saw a stair case way off in the distance. It was only 24 steps. I ran up and down, when reaching the bottom ran a few feet to touch this pillar, then back up and down. 30 second rest, repeat. Did that for a half mile. It was really windy today but I was still pouring sweat somehow.
Mile 2-3: Last mile, I didn’t want to be out too long because of my ankle. Pure run. There’s a hill the size of one city block you have to get up, then it’s relatively flat. There was some weird dude staring at me as I ran closer to the hill, I decided to give him something to stare at and I sprinted as fast as I possibly could. To my amazement that’s the fastest I’ve ever run up that hill, my Garmin had me at 11.1 at that point. Uhm, BEYOND AWESOME! That’s a 5:23 pace.
I plan on doing some wall hand stands, some resistance band work, some push ups, and abdominal work a bit later today as well.
Didn’t run as far as I planned on, but I’d say it was still a damn good day!
