Inspiration.
February 2012
34 posts
I follow a lot of fitspo teens...
I’d like to be following more fitspos aged 20 and over please. I’m 23 in just over a month, and I feel a little old with all the people talking about school and things!
Please reblog and help me find you all!
23 in September… and out of school.
Almost 26 :)
72 day challenge - Day 8
Day 8 of my 72 days to run a half-marathon:
Ugh! I feel like a huge cheat for taking 2 days off in a row. I my foot is still really sore, and the reality of it is that I am no spring chicken any more. And on top of that I am still +/- 10kg overweight. I mean, my BMI is within normal range, but I am quite muscular and not a natural runner. It must be such a shock to my system, running as much as I am doing now.
Tomorrow I am back on track again, with yoga + a good long run on the treadmill.
72 day challenge - Day 7
Day 7 of my 72 days to run a half-marathon:
I took today off, not quite sure whether my foot would get worse or not if I ran today. So I decided to take it easy instead. Tomorrow I have a doctors appointment, and after that I’ll try it out and go soft.
Since last sunday I have run over 30 km, and since this is the first week in my program I am sure that I plenty.
Next weeks goal, to either match 30 km or more.
On a scale from one to ten; How important is it to own a scale when you are losing weight?
I don’t own a scale, and I haven’t for many, many years. The only reason that I know I lost 12 kg last time is because I borrowed my mom’s scale 2 times, 6 months appart.
Ultimately, I would love to lose at least another 10-15 kg to be at my ultimate goal weight. But the weight is only symbolic of the way I would feel, run and look when I reached that weight. It would still be within a healthy BMI (20.2) and since I lose weight by exercise I maintain my muscle mass.
Would I be more motivated if I weighed myself every week/day? Is it even necessary to know what you weigh while losing weight?
I think I figured out why I keep having this soreness in my left achilles.
I used to do gymnastics, and as any good gymnast I have plenty of war wounds. One of them is a sore ankle after it poped out of it’s socket. It was horrendous to look at, just hanging and dangling there. After that, I think I started walking and running with my foot slightly turned inwards as too “protect” my foot while it hurt.
Things like that are never a good idea, because it gives you horrible habits and can, like I have seen, give you problems in later life.
I could see while running on the treadmill on wednesday (there is a mirror infront of the treadmill), that I seem to slightly turn my foot inwards while taking a step. This might not seem like much, but imagine walking on it like that all day, every day. Or running 6-7 km on it like that. It can’t be good.
Next time I go for a run, I think I might have to tape it and force it to stay straight. And then we’ll see if that helps.
That awesome moment when you are running and you are about to quit, but then an awesome song comes on and you get a new surge of energy.
72 day challenge - Day 5
Since I ran more than I had planned yesterday, I decided to switch it up today and go hit a funk class with my friend Ida. Think we might make this a weekly thing, so I have something to vary my training a little, so I don’t start hating running again.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I really missed dancing. And it was so fun to do it again!
