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At Week 0, I am not able to (never have been able to) run/jog a mile, so to be able to condition myself to run 3 miles is going to be tough. I have a feeling, it will take me longer than 2 months to get there, but the only way to find out is to start trying!
Goals:
Primary: Jog 1 Mile
Secondary: Jog 3 Miles
Secondary: lose more weight. Currently, I am not seriously looking to lose weight as I am not willing to give up my love affair with food. No S seems like a good opportunity to tackle that challenge when I get there, but I am doing this to get more fit, not look better. I personally am not ashamed of my fatty appearance so the weight aspect doesn't bother me.
The motivation for me doing this is that I had lost my child when she was 2 in December after a long fight with congenital heart defects. While I have very little regrets about what happened, the two factors that replay in my head was I never could carry her for more than 10 minutes (shovelglove workout) and I was less than motivated to physically play with her (modified urban ranger) for long periods of time. While Faith never minded this, now that she is gone, it definitely is something I will rectify with the next child (June 14th)
*End Rant*
Week 1 Weight: 260 (down from 275/280 prior to Shovelgloving since January)
Workout: Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes. (I do not count the warmup walk in the jog, so my total is 25 minutes, 5 minute walk, then interval jogging)
Workout 1: Success. Completed last friday. It was tough towards the end but was able to complete the 25 minute session.
Workout 2: Success. Completed last sunday. It was a bit easier, and was not as physically sore the next day as the friday session.
Workout 3: Success. Completed yesterday. It was snowing and nasty, and I had to do it with my sweatshirt on, which was getting damp so the extra weight caused back and shin pains during the workout. I had a bit of a snapfoo with my timer (it thought I hit the stop button) so I estimated that I did the correct amount of time, but not 100% sure. Regardless, counting it as a success.
End of Week 1, scale comes in at 257 this morning. While I have a feeling that some of that might be the foods I ate the night before on the beginning of week 1, it is a promising sign, so lets go with it....
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