30 Day Running Challenge

Alas, spring break is over. Alas, I did not gain any weight whilst I was home.

Alas, my roommate and I split a medium cheese pizza at 11pm last night.

I already told you I'm not perfect. That pizza was so good. I was so hungry and I don't get my Financial Aid until tomorrow, so when my roommate and I were driving home from our friends' place at 10:30pm and she was like, are you hungry? I was like, yes. And then we were right by Pizza Time. And she had her wallet. End of story.

Besides making the point that I'm far from perfect (OMGawd I had 2 peanut butter cookies with strawberry ice cream in between them for dessert last night!!!!!!!), I wanted to make this about something else: I really don't like running. Here's why:

1. It's running.

2. You get SO sweaty, so fast, because your heart is just accelerating itself and it's like oh gosh please slow down because I'm working really hard. Oh, you're not going to slow down? Okay, well I'll just keep complaining.

3. You can be running for a solid 10 minutes and just. be. exhausted.

4. You can be running for a solid 15 minutes and want. to. fall. over.

5. You can be running for a solid 20 minutes and then suddenly everything is fine.

RUNNING is so mental. It doesn't matter if you're listening to music or not. You can still hear your own thoughts. And somewhere (at least for me) around 1.5 miles, my body is like, why are we still running? And I'm like, because we can.

So, I've decided that for 30 days, I'm going to run at least 25 of the 30 days allotted. Running is horrible, but it does so many amazing things to my body. And when I say running, I mean at least 1.5 miles. I know that I can run 3 miles, so running 1.5 is really kind of a bitch-move at this point. So the chances of me actually only running 1.5 miles is really, really low. It would keep me up at night if I only did 1.5 I know it. And who knows, maybe by the end of this challenge my distance will be upped. If I could get to 4 miles (or even 5!), that would be a beautiful thing.

Here's hoping, yeah? I know I could though. So anyway, March 26 - April 25. Oh snap. April 25th is my roommate's birthday. That'll be a double reason to celebrate. Eff yeah. So I'm 2 days into it, with 2 miles done each day. I'm giving myself 5 sick days, but I'd like to not use them. Let's DO it!