Ok, so things are getting weird.
And by weird, I mean better.
So, I've made some serious life changes which I want to keep up with, and I have some pretty big goals that I can accomplish.
I quit smoking. Granted, it's only been 1 day. I'm sure I haven't had the worst of it yet. But it's something. And within one day, my mind has turned to other things to focus on.
I've been biking to work a lot for the past few weeks. And after a few flat tires and some trips to the bike shop and asking my boyfriend a ridiculous amount of questions, I feel like I have a rhythm down. Or at least I plan on commuting on my bike unless something happens. I'm trying to see if I can only put $20 on my Charlie Card for this month and see if that's all I need. Which would be nice. $70/month for a monthly pass? I'm sorry, that won't do. Then it jumps to $140 if I get a commuter rail pass. Totally insane.
The added bonus of biking on almost a daily basis is the amount of cardio I get just by getting to work and back. Considering that I'm just getting back into working out again, it's good to have something that forces me to work out every day. Anything else I do is bonus.
And I'm not doing that much more, but at least I'm not sitting around saying, 'I can't do that until I quit smoking.' (and then continue to smoke with no plan to quit)
But, I want to be athletic again. I remember when I wanted to run my first marathon. I hadn't ever really run before, I never really liked running either, and at that point I couldn't run more than a half mile without almost passing out.
Eight months after I made the decision to start running, I ran my first marathon in 4:32. I don't know how I trained, I just clocked the miles. No interval training, no coaching. Just me and my sneakers and the Charles River.
Now, I want to get back to that. Not for vanity or for gloating ability, but just because I can.
It's not going to be that hard to reach a personal record for me for just about any race I run, because I've run 2 marathons and a 5k. That's it. I feel like I train for things backwards.
So, here's the goal(s):
I want to be able to run a 7 minute mile. Keep in mind, I've never run anything faster than a 8:05 min/mile.
I want to qualify for the Boston Marathon in 2014 (I'll still be 30 then, and I feel that would be a good reward to welcome myself into my next decade)
I want to run a 3:15 marathon. (I'd need to run 3 hour 35 min to qualify for Boston, but Boston is filling up faster and faster every year, and not everyone who qualifies gets to run. So I want to aim low)
A 3:15 marathon requires me to run a 7:30 minute mile pace the whole 26.2 miles. I want to know if an ex-smoker can do this.
I have about 14 months to accomplish all these things.
The super-insane thing is I think I can do it. After all, I am clearly a glutton for punishment.
And by weird, I mean better.
So, I've made some serious life changes which I want to keep up with, and I have some pretty big goals that I can accomplish.
I quit smoking. Granted, it's only been 1 day. I'm sure I haven't had the worst of it yet. But it's something. And within one day, my mind has turned to other things to focus on.
I've been biking to work a lot for the past few weeks. And after a few flat tires and some trips to the bike shop and asking my boyfriend a ridiculous amount of questions, I feel like I have a rhythm down. Or at least I plan on commuting on my bike unless something happens. I'm trying to see if I can only put $20 on my Charlie Card for this month and see if that's all I need. Which would be nice. $70/month for a monthly pass? I'm sorry, that won't do. Then it jumps to $140 if I get a commuter rail pass. Totally insane.
The added bonus of biking on almost a daily basis is the amount of cardio I get just by getting to work and back. Considering that I'm just getting back into working out again, it's good to have something that forces me to work out every day. Anything else I do is bonus.
And I'm not doing that much more, but at least I'm not sitting around saying, 'I can't do that until I quit smoking.' (and then continue to smoke with no plan to quit)
But, I want to be athletic again. I remember when I wanted to run my first marathon. I hadn't ever really run before, I never really liked running either, and at that point I couldn't run more than a half mile without almost passing out.
Eight months after I made the decision to start running, I ran my first marathon in 4:32. I don't know how I trained, I just clocked the miles. No interval training, no coaching. Just me and my sneakers and the Charles River.
Now, I want to get back to that. Not for vanity or for gloating ability, but just because I can.
It's not going to be that hard to reach a personal record for me for just about any race I run, because I've run 2 marathons and a 5k. That's it. I feel like I train for things backwards.
So, here's the goal(s):
I want to be able to run a 7 minute mile. Keep in mind, I've never run anything faster than a 8:05 min/mile.
I want to qualify for the Boston Marathon in 2014 (I'll still be 30 then, and I feel that would be a good reward to welcome myself into my next decade)
I want to run a 3:15 marathon. (I'd need to run 3 hour 35 min to qualify for Boston, but Boston is filling up faster and faster every year, and not everyone who qualifies gets to run. So I want to aim low)
A 3:15 marathon requires me to run a 7:30 minute mile pace the whole 26.2 miles. I want to know if an ex-smoker can do this.
I have about 14 months to accomplish all these things.
The super-insane thing is I think I can do it. After all, I am clearly a glutton for punishment.
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