5k fun run = no run!‏

Hey Guys,

I mentioned a few weeks back that I had signed myself up to do the Operation Transformation 5k Fun Run.

Unfortunately I never got to do it. For a few reasons really.

1.    I left it to 2 weeks before the event to start training. Having never attempted to run before this was highly ambitious of me! I thought that because I go to spinning classes twice a week and do fast walks a couple of times a week, that I would be able to learn how to run pretty quickly! I WAS SO WRONG! Even with the couch to 5k app, it take up to 8 weeks to learn how to run and to do it for longer than 20 seconds at a time! Oops

2.    During one of these training sessions, I felt my left ankle click under me while I was attempting a slow jog!  I was about ¾ of a mile up the route at this stage. I limbed to the mile mark and then shuffled/ dragged/ walked back to my car. Defeated!! I have a weak left ankle from a few Christmas’s ago! I slipped on the ice, sprained my ankle, went to the pub and danced on it. Never got it checked at the time and its never been the same since!!

It had been fine and pain free for months before this happened to me! So I’d forgotten that my ankle was weak and I hadn’t put a support bandage on. D’oh.

So I had to rest my ankle for the best part of a week and wear the support bandage.

That gave me  one week to learn how to run and to train to run 5k!! 3.1 miles!! Eeeek. This was never going to happen for me! I feel bad because when I saw it advertised on the television show, I was all geared up and feeling positive and I was definitely going to enter and run the race. Its always been on my to do list, to run at least one 5k run!

But alas, its not meant to be for me this time. And its my own fault! Had I started the training at the same time as the shows contestants, I would have had the 8 weeks training, possibly not the ankle injury and this would be a completely different blog post.

((I would have been all proud of myself and a little show offy that I had run 5k.. me, who’s never run the length of myself!! )) so be thankful for that at least.

I think running/ jogging will be something that I’ll have to work on over a prolonged period of time. I’m not a natural runner, nor am I light and graceful. I’m heavy and clumsy and I run like an elephant on roller skates! So its something that I will definitely have to work at! Plus being fit for an advanced spinning class is not the same as being fit to run the roads!!

I’m hoping that if I put little jog spurts into my walks and with practice and weight loss, that running will become a little more natural for me!

The Cork ladies mini marathon is held in September. I think that this is what I should set my sights on. A long term goal.

I hope to be at my goal weight for August. So running 5k when I’m 4 stone lighter should be achievable!

I hate coming on here and admitting to failing due to my own silliness and lack of planning. But I have to face up to this and admit that this is my own doing.

It was always overly ambitious of me.

But hats off to those who followed the plan and completed the run last Saturday. I will someday be in yer gang!

 

Operation SkinnieMinnie Progress Report #2‏

Hey Guys,

Its February already, so here I am with my progress photos. Its been a month since I last took photos of me and my wobbly bits in Lycra and I know your dying to see some more, lol.

I’m not proud of these pics but as my mother says “photo’s don’t lie” and she’s right *sob sob*

I’m hoping that by showing these photos every month, they will spur me on and keep me on the right path… the road to a slimmer and trimmer me, rather than the road to cake and chocolate and an even bigger muffin top (mmmmmm muffins)

I am starting to feel better in myself, its been 4 weeks good eating and regular exercise and I’m feeling good, I had to bin my black work pants last week as it was hanging off me (result J) so even though the scales are moving slowly, its my clothes that I’m feeling the difference, not so much that I need to go buy a whole new wardrobe right now, but I’m finding that when I look in the mirror, my clothes are sitting a little better on me and that is a confidence boost for me.

It definitely the little things, the waist band of my clothes feeling a little bit looser, not panting like I've walked through the dessert for 5 days when I climb the 3 flights of stairs to get to work every morning, increasing the distance I go on my spinning bike (this went from 13km to 16.8km last week) Saying no when offered food that doesn't fit in with my plan or is offered after 7pm and feeling proud of myself (yes this does get easier) Going for a quick walk when all I really want is to sit and watch Home & Away.

You get the idea, all these little things are adding up to the bigger picture and will stand to me in the coming months as I continue on my journey to loose 60lbs (before September)

Yes I’ve decided that by setting myself an end date, I’ll be more focused for now. This date may change, but I’m hoping it won’t, its 7 months away and I've 4 stone to loose, that definitely not setting my goals too high. Well I don’t think it is anyways.

So my goal for February is to complete the Operation Transformation 5k Fun Run in Cork on 23^rd February. I’m not a runner, but I’d like to be and I think that training for this event will be tough on my body, but good for my mind and it’s achievable. I haven’t attempted a run yet, but that will change in the coming weeks. My fast power walks will become slow jogs and I’ll build it up from there, eeeeek. I CAN DO THIS!!

Have you set yourself some goal for this month to keep you on the good path rather than the road to cake? I’d love to hear what they are. What’s keeping your motivated?