SO today was like the perfect afternoon for a run. It was sunny, not to hot, not to cold. It was also a running day. So I started toying with the idea of going for a run outside. I am a treadmill runner. I normally, do not venture outside unless I am doing an event. So I down loaded an app to help me find a 2 mile route and this app also shows all the elevation of the route you make. You see, I live at the top of a hill and everywhere we go it is downhill or up hill and leaving our house is all down hill. Then everything coming home is up hill. So I made the very educated decision that I was not ready to run around my very hilly neighborhood. I got home and DH insisted that it was perfect to run outside and that I must. He even offered to pull the kids in the bike trailer and ride his bike near me while I ran. So I decided to put aside my exact C210K training, put on my gear & went outside for a run. That SUCKED!!!! I felt like I was back on week 3 of my C25K program!! I told DH this is why I don't run outside, I feel like I haven't accomplished anything w/ my training. Running down hill was full of very hard landings and then running up hill, well lets me honest running up hill didn't happen. The last running day I did my fasted treadmill mile ever at 12:34, the today it took me 32 mins to complete two miles. Now I have to remind myself that I was doing 20-25 min miles when I started so 32 mins for 2 miles is better than where I started from. And DH's point is a valid one. All these events I sign up for are outside and there are hills so I should be training for them. I have some terrible hills coming at me in just a couple weeks for the warrior dash and I feel that I am not ready for them. The really crappy thing is that my muscles weren't doing to bad but the whole needing to breath thing, tends to get in my way. There are so many more variables when running outside; traffic, noises, smells, inclines that are not in your control, other people. When I am on my treadmill it is just me and my cushioned landing focusing on my breathing alone. Outside there is some much else to focus one that I have a hard time remembering to focus on my breathing. At one point I found a rhythm and I had to look down at my feet so I couldn't see anything else around me. But when your running outside with traffic that doesn't work, so I had to snap out of my groove to pay attention to my surroundings. Again this is another reason practicing outside would be back We made it back home and my legs are a little tight. So point of this sad tale is that I do need to go outside to run but now I am realizing that to have a average of 14 min mile (my goal for the Tinker bell) I need to be having consistent like 11-12 min miles on the treadmill. But the one thing the outdoors will always have over the treadmill are the views.
I then started thinking about ways to make my running easier. In addition to training what else can I do??? Well there are new shoes and them I thought if I lost weight then it would be easier to run as well. Less weight to hall around, less force on my feet while I run. Why isn't a diet sticking, truth of the madder is I am a stubborn spoiled brat. That is right I don't wanna & if I have to I want it to happen now. While visiting with a friend the other day I was saying how I need to stop the thinking working out or running a 5K means I get to go out to eat. I then had a thought out of no where that this is how I have been trained since I started in sports. I started sports in Jr High and after EVERY game we would go to McDonald's to eat. So for all of my sports participation fought me that I play a game, work hard then I get a cheese burger and fries. We learned that the bus driver and coaches eat free at McDonald's if they bring the team in. So then I was thinking about the foods we put in and how I am sure if I ate better I would be able to perform better. I mean you don't up crap oil in a race car. Yes I did just compare myself to a sports car, my husband will appreciate this reference. But really I see my self as an athlete in training. I want to get better at my sport and more athletic but the weight is truly getting in my way and holding me down. Not only that but the quality of food I am putting into my body isn't helping the situation either. In Christ Powell's "Choose to Lose" book he talks about treating our body as a machine. Here is my blog post where I talked about his book: Choose to Lose. He talks about how if we are overweight it is proof that our machine is operating property. Again I highly recommend this book. It helps change some thinking. I mean I've always know yeah we need to eat better to be healthier. And people always say this is the way to lose weight. But to think about it as if I eat this it is not going to make me faster, it's not going to make running easier. Hmmmm??? Something to think about. I mean this may just take the whole stubborn brat out of the equation.
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