Did you miss me? Well, I am back and ready to continue to blog about my experiences at FitWit. I must say that the past couple of weeks have been stressful and I had to roll with the punches. It was a test on many areas of my life and for once, I can say that I did not allow food to control or take over my emotions. I am true and staying focused on the path and journey that I have decided to take.
The first and second week of camp have come and gone. Where is time going?
The first week was like OMG! I think that my body was use to resting and then I put it back to work, I must stay that I needed the rest but I just had a first hard week.
Now, this past week was like OMG times 2! I was sore this week and really worked hard. On Friday, we worked out at Grant Park. I missed a night of camp and was depressed. Ian, my boyfriend, was at the ER and I was there with him. Thank God that he is fine and it was an eye opener for him. I get to Grant Park on Friday and Josh tells me that it was the timed mile. I wanted to CRY! I was not wanting to do the mile in the park and Grant Park workouts are HARD!!! It was HOT and it felt like 100 degrees and the wind was not blowing. I was sweating after 1 min of the warm up. Well, it took me 16 mins to run a mile and I think that it was HARDER the last part because it was mainly up hill. I felt like I had nothing else left in me after that. I managed to finish up doing core work with Amy and about 6 other campers.
I am trying to learn to just get negative thoughts out of my mind when I hear the word "run" or any form. I think that once those thoughts set in then it is all downhill. I am challenging myself to run a mile for homework this week and time myself. I am going to do it around my neighborhood, so that I will have some up and down hills. I will post the results in my next blog.
Thanks you all for the support that you have given me on this journey.
JCE
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Great Post.
ReplyDeleteJo, you might not know this but it's well know to those who have worked out with me but I HATE running!! It is the bain of working out for me and for a long time anytime Josh had a workout with running in it I just had the worst thoughts run through my head and reading your post reminded me of those dark times. LOL.. What changed it for me was not looking at running as evil (which sometimes I still think it is) but rather see it as a challenge to improve on something that I was weak at. Just keep plugging away at it and just tell yourself it's just another mountain to concur.
Also, big props for not allowing food to be the fall back when the stress hit. That is a very good sign indeed.. If you can do that you can do anything..