I'm being pretty hard on myself today.
I'm a week away from my first 20 min run and my knees are hurting. Yep. They have been throbbing for a week. Which means I haven't run for about a week and I'm frustrated.
Tonight I ran anyway. I don't care if it hurts. Maybe it needs to hurt to get better?
I feel like I've been plugging away at this couch to 5k thing (not on a very rigid schedule :s) and I do not look at all how I thought I would look. I look the same. Although that idea has been argued to the contrary by my loving and understanding hubs.
I feel like my arms and lower legs are better. But I still have the flab of skin that is supposed to by my stomach and saddle bags at the tops of my thighs...and my weight hasn't changed at all.
I know you aren't supposed to look at the scale but I'm desperate for encouragement. I'm trying...but it's not enough I guess.
Blah. Whatever.
How's that for a pic me up blog post! Go eat some ice-cream now.
Do you have a foam roller? You can roll your IT band, quads, and hammies and it might help your knees a bit. Bonus is that it feels fantastic! I use mine all the time, even now that I'm not running.
ReplyDeleteAlso...hate to say this...but I never lose weight running :S Weight training and diet monitoring are the only thing (in combination with cardio/running) that move the scale for me. Sucks.
Oh we do have a foam roller! I will try that!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to start TOPS again. They have food exchange cards that helped me with portion sizes. I'm not too worried about the quality of the food I eat but I think the quantities are way off. There are some days I'm so busy I forget to eat and then binge at supper :s
I'm telling myself that strength training will start once I reach 5k...in a week! Yikes!