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Day 21/22/23
Distance - 2.0
Time - 20:15
Running Song of the Day - Homecoming by Green Day
Not much to really talk about today (or the last 2 days). Today was good, but not great. I did better today than the last few days, so that’s something. Still wishing I could do a mile because it’s making me feel super lame and pathetic that I cannot but whatevs.
Day 20
Distance - 2.0
Time - 20:57
Running Song of the Day - Wings by Little Mix
If anyone is keeping track, I went to the gym before work officially once so I am officially a complete failure. Whoops. Maybe next week? (probably not...) Today was slightly better than yesterday, though I am still struggling a bit. I watched My 600-LB Life because it was on the treadmill TV and it’s better than having to stare at Trumps’s bloviated face. It’s actually a quite effective running inspiration because it did make me go a little bit farther and a little bit faster. But yeah, that’s pretty much all I have for you tonight, see you tomorrow.
Day 19
Distance - 1.0
Time - 9:57
Running Song of the Day - St. Jimmy by Green Day
So those numbers are actually a lie. I tried to pause the treadmill to catch my breath and I accidentally deleted my workout and had to start again, so it was more like 1.7. Just know that I ran slightly more than that and the first mile was way slower. I don’t have a whole lot to say about today. I am still getting winded so fast and running slow and frustrated about it. Other than that, still plugging away.
Day 17/18
Distance - 2.0
Time - 20:50
Running Song of the Day - Miss Movin On by Fifth Harmony
Today was honestly pretty rough. For one, I skipped going this morning and went in the evening instead (whoops). I really feel like I should be faster and have better endurance at this point. I’m getting really frustrated by how much I’m still struggling to do even small distances, especially since I can’t even do a mile yet and it’s been almost 20 days. I don’t know if there’s something I should be doing different to build myself up better. I do know that I need to be eating better, which I’ve said before but it’s hard when ice cream is a thing that exists. So yeah, that’s where I am right now.
Day 16
Distance - 1.0
Time - 9:57
Running Song of the Day - Pillowtalk by Zayn Malik
Today was actually pretty good. This is the closest I’ve come to getting a full mile without stopping which is a milestone that I am very anxious to reach. I intentionally didn’t do too hard of a workout tonight because I am planing to wake up early tomorrow and run before work and in my experience, it’s REALLY hard to have a good run when you do something really intense the night before. That’s my excuse at least...
My goal for this week is to go every morning before work. The nice thing about this little experiment is that it gives me a chance to see patterns and what works and what doesn’t so I thought that might be a good thing try. It will also be nice to have some more time in the evenings to get some work done and all that.
Day 14/15
Distance - 2.0
Time - 20:15
Running Song of the Day - Va Va Voom by Nicki Minaj
I don’t really have much to say about these last two days. Today’s run was okay, I am getting slightly faster and increasing my endurance which are good but it’s still coming along more slowly than I would like. Afterwards I ate ice cream and pizza though so...probably not the most effective strategy for getting “healthy”. Whoops.
Day 12/13
Day 12: Distance - 1.0
Time - 18:40
Day 13: Distance - 1.42
Time - 15:00
Running Song of the Day - The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
Man, these last few days have been rough. I’ve been working late, I got rear-ended on the way home from work and I’ve been doing stuff at work that I hate. The desire to skip has been strong lately, but I’ve been making myself go and at least do the bare minimum. Literally yesterday I stopped at 1/4 mile and left but then forced myself to finish the mile. So I guess that’s something. I guess the lesson from this week has been that despite my misery and unhappiness with everything, I wouldn’t be less unhappy if I skipped the gym so I might as well go and get it over with.
Day 11
Distance - 2.0
Time - 21:07
Running Song of the Day - Epic Last Song by Does It Offend You? Yeah
Today was a bit better, even though I was filled with dread at the thought of going tonight. Honestly, work has been pretty bad and stressful lately so then when I add this on top of everything, it doesn’t really help. However, I’m glad that I went and hopefully it will get a little easier soon.
Also, I finally got a 2016 calendar! One thing that really helps me track my progress is to write down my distance and times and average speed every day on a calendar. It helps to visualize progress and to spot patterns like “oh wow, I always have a really shitty workout on Mondays”. So now I finally have the last week of runs in there and I can see that I’ve made at least a little progress, so I guess that’s good?
Day 10
Distance - 1.5 Miles
Time - 15:47
Running Song of the Day - Anna Sun by Walk the Moon
One of these days I will not start with “today was rough” but today is not that day. However, I will say that this project is accomplishing one goal where I no longer think “do I want to go to the gym today?” because the answer to that question is always No. It’s literally always no. I think there have been maybe 3 times in life in total where I have thought “I really want to go to the gym tonight” and that’s a lie, there’s probably been 1. I also know I’m a huge liar that I was going to start doing longer distances but I’ve been noticing some pain in my ankle and hips so I think I’m going to hold off for another week and build up more gradually. The really annoying thing about working out for me is trying to decide on the line between pushing myself too hard and not hard enough. As a naturally lazy person, I am usually on the line not pushing myself hard enough and trying to pretend it’s too hard.
The other struggle for me is that a lot of people talk about how running is the one time people feel like they can escape their problems and that is just not how I am. When I am stressed or worried or thinking about all the crap I have to do, when I try to run it just makes me feel so weighted down and I spend the whole time thinking about all the things I’m stressed about. So that doesn’t help.
Day 9
Distance - 1.0
Time - 17:38
Running Song of the Day - Wolves by One Direction
Today was always going to be a super lame day. Yesterday was my birthday so today I was hungover and tired and just wanted to be doing nothing. But I did drag myself to the gym and do my annoying mile, including about 8 steps of running, so technically it counts. This week my goal is to increase my miles to 2.5 and hopefully get to at least a half mile running without needing to stop. We shall see how it goes
Day 7/8
Sorry I didn’t post yesterday but I forgot :) These were actually interesting runs because it was my last run of my 26th year and my first run of my 27th. I was hoping they would be super great and inspiring but it was pretty much the same shit of struggling through even a 1/3 of a mile. In my past experience, I usually have a long time where I feel like I’m struggling to get every single step and then suddenly I’ll have a huge jump where I can do twice as much as the day before. I would like that to happen soon because I’m feeling particularly lame lately. Now that my birthday is over though, I am going to be focusing more on my eating habits and trying to fuel myself better and more efficiently because I know right now I’m doing a crappy job and not helping myself. Ideally I’ll start making some improvements soon.
Day 6
Distance - 1.0
Time - 11:31
Running Song of the Day - Minority by Green Day
I knew from the start today would be rough. I am meeting friends after work so I had to go to the gym in the morning, less than 12 hours since my last run. I went to bed way too late and I really just wanted to sleep, but I didn’t want to have to run at 11:00 PM so I sucked it up. I did a pretty good sprint session - running .1 at a fast pace and then walking .05 in between so it felt pretty good, despite myself. The other benefit was that I got to watch Supernatural on the gym TV since I was there so early, so win/win.
Day 5
Distance - 2.0
Time - 21:21
Running Song of the Day - My Oh My by Aqua
Tonight was only okay. I was hoping to improve my distances from yesterday but instead I was struggling with even getting a 1/4 miles without needing to stop. However, I did notice that I am able to catch my brat quicker and run again sooner, so that’s some improvement I guess? Since I was struggling with distances, I decided to just do more like a sprint session which felt pretty good and like a solid workout.
I hope that if people read this, the fact that I am so god awful at running can be a kind of relief for them. I know that I try to read runner’s blogs and stuff and it’s like “I did an easy 4 miler today” and I’m like “NO! Running 4 miles is really hard!!” I actually did a marathon a few years ago and even when I was training and doing long runs all the time, I never found them to be “easy”. So if that’s anyone out there, don’t worry, you aren’t alone.
Days 3/4
Distance - 2.0 Miles
Time - 21:15
Running Song of the Day - Pain by Jimmy Eat World
haha, whoops, I may have forgotten to post yesterday (even though I did run!). Yesterday was okay, blah blah blah.
Today was actual really good though! I was expecting to do my usual wanting to die within the first 10 seconds but I was able to run through an entire song for once. Woot. It’s the little things in life. My goal is to be up to 3 miles by President’s Day (weird goal) so we’ll see how shit goes.
Distance - 1.0 Miles
Time - 11:20
Running Song of the Day - Shark in the Water by VV Brown
Man, today was one of the days that I would absolutely not have gone to the gym under other circumstances. I had a few too many mimosas at brunch and then took too long of a nap afterwards so I didn’t feel very good and I was tired. Knowing that I didn’t really want to do much, I decided just to do a mile of sprints but it actually went pretty well. It still felt like a workout even though I went in with the intention of laziness so I guess that was an accomplishment. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little less pathetic.
Distance - 2.0 miles
Time - 25:45
Running Song of the Day - I Would by One Direction
HAHAHA so a great way to gauge how this is going is to note that I started approximately 3 weeks after I first intended. Whoops. I did my first run today at the gym and could barely do a 1/4 mile without walking. It certainly did not help that the beautiful sculpted man on the treadmill next to me was going super fast and not stopping. Oh well, at least I am finally starting?
Anyhows, this is about what I was expecting for my first run. I’m hoping to add on distance and endurance so that these posts are less embarrassing and more inspiring, but I think at this rate we’ll be well into February for that :)
Introduction
I came up with idea for this challenge because 2015 has not been my best year. Despite the fact that I’ve made major strides in my career, I’ve still found myself to be extremely unhappy. I think a huge part of this was the fact that as work increased, my time and desire to work out and be healthy severely diminished. In November I decided to do an entire month where I don’t skip the gym once and failed miserably, so the obvious next step seemed to be to do it for a year instead (I’m so good at logic). The rules are simple:
1. Do one mile of physical activity every single day and at least part of it has to be running.
2. Repeat 365 times.
I am the kind of person who comes up with big grand plans of how I am going to improve my life and then I don’t do them and hate myself which is why I decided to blog about this experience to try to maintain accountability and hopefully learn some things about myself and why I do things. My plan is to blog every day about what’s going on so that I know (and you know) that I’ve done my running for the day and hopefully some of you out there might find it interesting.