So, there was all this stuff that I stopped doing/put off when we started TTC, because pSHAW, I was going to be SO knocked up likethat, what was the point? Ha! A haha hah ahha ha. Just because every female member of your family, and your husband’s family, has gotten pregnant while in line at the post office, accidentally, does not mean YOU will. ANYWAY.
I dug up an old goal, inspired by princessjeanne, which is to be one of those assholes that runs IN PUBLIC and even on COLD DAYS. I have the shoes, upstairs, put away last summer because FOR SURE I was pregnant, or close to it, and don’t want to jog the baby right out of my pagina, now do I? NO! Just like I don’t want to waste all that money on staying on Weight Watchers, or spend all that petty cash on heroin. (If only I’d kept up with the heroin, that certainly would have found me pregnant, sigh.) No, the BABY will need all of those resources, so I better ease up! And besides, how could I buy OPKs, HPTs, and special sperm-friendly internet-only lube if I’d spent all my money on stupid shit like HEALTH? Ahem.
In pursuit of the make my fatass run up and down the streets of Bangor, I followed PJ’s lead and looked up the Couch-to-5k plan. With the days stretching out, bit by bit, and my ass doing the same, it’s time to get physical, let’s gee-eett physical, let me hear your body talk! Oh, whoops.
This is my goal. Three times a week. I should be able to do that. Even if I go in the dark, in my Invisible Pedestrian costume to start. I even started a running log at that site, which I will link to after my first go. Right now, I have the couch part down PAT. BooYAH! Someone come dump Gatorade on my head! WHOOO!
So, that is my goal. I’m pretty good at hyperfocusing on shit, and maybe I should hyperfocus on my teaching or my grad school, but no. I need to do something for me that doesn’t use my brains, because I know my brains work like they should, and better than most. Instead, I need to get my body to do what I want it to, because me and my body are just not on good terms right now. I’d ask it to sleep on the couch, but I’d miss Dave too much.
(And if anyone wants to be part of some type of C25k support system, let me know.)
Whoo! Go us.
How do you plan on timing this? I’m a little confused on that part – run 60 secs and walk 90? I don’t have a watch that’s easy enough to set that I can do it and walk/run at the same time. Hm.
You guys could time it by breaths instead of seconds — not the same but the same principle as far as C25K is concerned, I’d say. Just a lot more counting.
I want to give the running thing another try, now that there’s daylight before I have to get dressed for work. I was able to run 5k at one point last summer, but I sure as hell can’t do it now. I haven’t been getting any exercise AT ALL lately, so I could use this kick in my ass.