Spanishbelle’s BodyBlog

Last week was hard and once the soreness in my legs kicked in, things became a whole lot tougher.  It was painful to walk, sit and be up and about during my day.  I was in the house of pain!  I hit the gym at 5:00 this morning.  I’m taking things one day at a time, one week at a time.  I have a trip to China coming up in October, my goal is to work off ten pounds between now and then and my plan is to max out before I leave and take a vacation from working out while on vacation. 

Wow!  I am exhausted and sore.  The calibration for my Nike+ shoe did not go smoothly.  I put the sensor in sleep mode and getting it to turn back on was a challenge.  I spent a good 35 minutes on it and finally got it to working.  After being very annoyed with spending that kind of time on my gadget, I hit the track.  It’s pretty cool.  I’m am so out of shape and slow!  My runs are taxing, physically and mentally, and my stats are depressing.  It’s the start though, my goal is to build my endurance, I’ll work on my speed later.  This struggle is a phase…a phase I am ready to get over.

Back in the gym and it was good.  I was a little lost, not sure what to hit since everything needs work.  At the end of an hour and a half, my upper body and abs were feeling it.  Haven’t lost any strength, that’s a good thing.  Need to get my running out of the way. It was storming this morning so my 5 a.m. run was not an option.  I’ve taken care of business with Nike+ toy.  I’ll be callibrating it today and I’ve opened an account with Nike to log my running progress.  It’s a public profile so hey, feel free to join in and run it up with me, same name…spanishbelle. 

As of this past Saturday, I’m back to it…running that is.  Looking in the mirror is just plain sad.  I’ll tell you what has been an eye opener, trying on my fitness clothes….have mercy!  I have a 45 minute run for tomorrow and I am headed to the gym, no question about it.  I purchased the Nike+ shoe with the whole IPOD sensor thing, I am very excited about that.  Not much else going on, just working on getting back in the gym.