How long do you have to stay in the gym to not be one of "those new year resolution people"?
... because I will BEAT that! I am going on two months and only becoming more and more addicted. I don't see a stopping point, instead my BIG and CRAZY imagination sees myself in long distant triathlons. Mind you, I have never done any kind of triathlon but for the last month I have read about EVERY blog there is about people like me that have. I was reading about the couch to 5K program - now I am reading about couch to triathlons - yep I have lost my mind in just a matter of months.
Question 2:
Can I do a triathlon?
I think I can, I think I can, and my boot camp instructor who is ever so motivating and encouraging thinks I can - so I say lets go for it. In fact my mind has chose to obsess over it.
What is funny about this is I am NOT ATHLETIC at all. I have never been on a swim team, I have never biked more then a few miles, and the longest distance I have ever ran is 8 miles. I have a small frame and might look like a runner (as I have been told by non-runners)... but my little secret is I am just a girl with small bone structure that actually can't run. I took me a year of running in my 20's to hit 8 miles- and then I thought I might die! I signed up for the mini in 2005 and quit because I was too busy wedding planning. I have never in my life lifted weights or done an exercise video (except for abbs and buns of steal in the 90's - come on I had to try it, everyone was doing it). Let me also mention my right knee sounds like rice crispies when I go up and down stairs and is in pain after doing squats and lunges (which I only have started doing the last month because prior to the last few months I had never really worked out - have I drove that point home yet?)
I have not blogged about any of this in the last 2 months, because I wanted to be sure I had a plan to stick with this before I told the 3 people that might read this in internet world - if you are one of the 3 reading this right now, I thank you. Even if no-one reads your blog, something about putting your goals and dreams out there is still frightening. I did not want to say things like I am going to kick this baby weight a%* if I really was not, and I did not want to say I am going to run a 5K if I continued to quit after week 3 of training (like I did in July). But now I would like to announce something - even if it is just for me...
I AM GOING TO DO A SPRINT TRIATHLON, I WILL COMPLETE IT, AND I WILL TRAIN FOR ANOTHER ONE!
The amazing trainer I have been working with in her amazing boot camp is Tatum Perez of TXT . I can't put in enough plugs for her because she is not just a great friend but an amazing trainer. She has me motivated and encouraged and convinced I can do things I did not think I could, in fact she has me doing things I did not think I would! Lifting for starters - who new I would grow to crave the pain that feels like success - I mean I literally like the pain now, if it doesn't hurt I feel like I did not work out. I have bought weight, a jump rope, out door running clothes... if she says I can I then gosh darn-it I will.
I could write a book on what has happened over the last 2 months but I will spare you and attempt to
put in bullet points...
- I have lost another 5 pounds or so (LOVE MY FITNESS PAL on my phone)
- I have worked out till my legs gave out and when I went to run I just fell (an odd but great feeling)
- I have tried to keep up with girls at boot camp that have been doing this for years and had to laugh at myself when I can't get my body to do what theirs will (oh I have to write these stories latter)
- I have had my lock cut off my locker at the club - doesn't that scream NEWBIE in the GYM!
- I have had people in the pool stare at my freestyle and I can tell they are thinking "oh that poor girl, I should give her some tips"
- I have spend HOURS reading about triathlons
- I have cried over numerous stories of women that are very overweight and completed 1/2 ironman
- I have injured myself doing a "jump up" at boot camp because my mind told my body to go, but it just didn't. *right now my entire shin is a big bump and bruise and hurst when my pants touch it but who cares when you need to run! (Is this really me talking?)
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