The Rockin' Run That Wasn't

I had two miles scheduled yesterday, but took a rest day instead.  I made the run up today.  It was pretty humid, so the whole time I was at work, I was psyching myself out because I thought it was going to be a terrible run.  I thought I was going to get hot and overheated.  That was the least of my worries.

Don't get me wrong, there wasn't an injury or anything.  It was just about the suckiest run I've had in a while.  :/  I was just running along, not watching the Garmin and just watching the scenery ahead of me.  I only run a few different routes, depending on if I'm in the town I live in or the town I work in.  I've ran this particular route a few times at different lengths, so I thought I knew at what distance a lot of the landmarks were.  When I thought I'd gone about a mile, I checked the Garmin.  I thought I was rockin' it but was totally disappointed to see that I only had gone .60 of a mile and I was doing almost a 14 minute pace.  All I could think was WTF?  So of course, I was discouraged and frustrated and it made for a really long 2 miles.  :/  I went a little further than 2 miles because my DailyMile log is not an even mileage and it drives the control freak in me nuts every time I see it.

kind of blurry

I finished 2.16 miles at a 13:34 pace in 29:16 minutes.  The whole time I felt like I was running in mud.  I have no idea what my deal was, but I hope it doesn't linger.  I'm hitting the gym tomorrow and just going to keep hoping my next run (2 miles on Thursday) is going to be a lot easier.  :/

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I'm trying to come up with a challenge for May or maybe some mini goals, but I can't think of anything.  I'd like to keep up my water intake and increase my days at the gym.  Hopefully when soccer and school are over, my days won't be nearly as busy and I'll have a little more time to myself, but I actually don't see that happening.  LOL  I'm also working on only weighing on my weigh in days.  I weighed yesterday because it was the end of a challenge, but I didn't weigh myself today (which was soooo difficult).  I've also contemplated changing my weigh in days to Mondays.  I do so awful on the weekends.  I think part of it is subconscious - I know that I'm safe because I weighed in on Friday, so if I mess up during the weekend, I have the rest of the week to fix it.  But it's a vicious cycle and I think that's why I keep bouncing around within the same few pounds.  However, I've noticed that on Wednesday and Thursday I work harder than the rest of the days because I know weigh in is coming up on Friday.  So I'm hoping that maybe I can trick myself into not sabotaging myself on the weekends by moving my weigh in to Monday's.  I think I'll try it for the month of May and see how it goes.  :)

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Food Log:

• breakfast - belvita breakfast biscuits (230)
• lunch - 2 santa fe egg rolls with salsa (340), salad with ranch
• dinner -turkey burger (275), grillin' beans (80), cottage cheese (160)
• snack - 2 turkey and cheese roll ups
• energy - 5 hour energy (4)
• water - 47.4 ounces

Tried to keep my calories under 1600, but since I didn't weigh out the stuff for my salad or the gross honey mustard I used on one of the turkey and cheese roll ups, I'm not sure where my calories are at.  :/


Fitness Log:

• run outside - 2.16 miles/13:35min pace, 29:16 minutes total/239 calories burned

total calories burned:  239 calories

ROUGH run.  :(