Day Twelve

Outside Again

2.30 in 33 minutes

Some of you might notice that I'm writing this well after the run. I had a busy Saturday :) I did run around noon on Saturday, but am writing this on Sunday late afternoon.

I woke up late on Saturday (yeah!) and watched (500) Days of Summer. If you have not seen that movie, go rent it right now. It is a fabulous movie and I've already watched it twice in 24 hours. There is singing, dancing, laugher, tears and lessons learned.

I got off the couch to go run outside (please hold your applause until the end). I put my new Under Armour headband on and new running pants. Took one look in the mirror and the pants came off. There was no way I was going out there looking like that... ha! I can't describe what I looked like, but it was definitely too much. So I decided to go with shorts. It looked a little less stupid. I did put my ear cords through my jacket thing again and tied my key to my shoes. I packed about twice as many kleenex this time around.

Everything went according to plan, but you know me, I need to find something to bitch about. So here goes... even with my new stellar headband, my nose still ran. My ears weren't too cold and it did help my ear buds stay in. My nose didn't run as bad as the first time. It was slightly easier to run outside instead of on a treadmill in terms of not noticing the time length as badly. However after the first 5 minute stretch of jogging I had looked down at my iPhone to find only 10 seconds left. It beeped signalling me to walk and I put it in my pocket so I could blow my nose. I than walked for what seemed like forever to find out I had inadvertently ended my workout on the iPhone. Needless to say I was pissed. I think I probably only walked for 1-2 minutes longer than I should have before jogging again. But still! I have worked so hard to do the whole thing exactly as it is supposed to play out. I won't think about that now, I'll think about that tomorrow (Scarlett shoutout).

I'm seeing a possible wall in the future. Next Saturday (that's right, six days) the Plan Gods are asking me to jog 20 minutes straight with no walking. Holy crap. I'd like to think I have more faith in myself and believe I can do that, but right now, I don't. I've got five days to build myself up. Bring out the tough chick music! I'm calling Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Fergie, Christina Aguilera, maybe even some Beyonce. Come on girls!