{"id":11562,"date":"2010-07-18T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:50:04","slug":"find-your-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/07\/find-your-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Find your reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hello all my little athletes!\u00a0 How was this past week in training for you?\u00a0 Mine was alright but I think it’s time to bump it up a little bit.\u00a0 I need to get back into the habit of doing strength again and am finding that motivation lacking.\u00a0 I’m not really sure why either because I love lifting!\u00a0 Sleep has been seriously calling my name and there are a few times where I fell victim to its siren call.<\/p>\n

Totally guilty!\u00a0 And it happens because no one’s perfect.<\/p>\n

Monday<\/strong>, I slept in and then did a little bit of light lifting along with some abs and pushups.\u00a0 I did a few moves from Bodyrock.TV.\u00a0 I really like the alternative pushups and ab moves that are on there.<\/p>\n

Tuesday<\/strong> I got up early, coaxed Scotty outta bed and we headed out for a nice run.\u00a0 I did six miles at a 9:30 pace which was totally lovely!<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong>, back at it again and I decided to do a short run but to pick up the pace a little bit and see what I could do.\u00a0 I did four miles at a 9:00 min pace!\u00a0 That was my first ever 9 min\/mile!\u00a0 Whooo! :woohoo:\u00a0 It was hard and I was worn out afterwards but I felt awesome and was completely pleased with that run.\u00a0 It was also a gorgeous morning, that pic above is what I woke up to on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 Beautiful!<\/p>\n

We’ve been having hot weather but nothing too terribly horrible.\u00a0 That is until Thursday<\/strong> rolled around and then we got slammed with more humidity.\u00a0 I started off the morning just playing the run by ear.\u00a0 I was going to see how I felt and how my legs felt and go from there.\u00a0 I ended up doing another 4 miler.\u00a0 My hams were tired from Wednesday’s speedy run and knowing that I had Muay Thai conditioning class later, I decided to take it easy.<\/p>\n

Conditioning class was a rough one just because of how hot it was.\u00a0 I had sweat rolling off of me like crazy! Thank goodness for water breaks!<\/p>\n

Friday and Saturday<\/strong> I took as rest days.\u00a0 Saturday was an unintentional rest day.\u00a0 I woke up late and groggy and just had 0 motivation to get anything done.\u00a0 I was cranky about it but whatever.\u00a0 Life goes on and you can’t dwell on things, you know?<\/p>\n

Scott and I headed out to get some errands taken care of.\u00a0 He needed some more running shirts and we both needed to get some sunglasses.\u00a0 Target was our friend and I got a pair of sunglasses for running and then another pair for the car.\u00a0 Both are polarized because I’m told that along with UVA\/UVB protection, polarized sunglasses are also needed.\u00a0 I guess they help protect your eyes from the brightness of the sun and prevents you from squinting in direct sunlight.<\/p>\n

The downside to my sunglasses is that they are pink.\u00a0 YUCK!\u00a0 But that is the only pair of that kind that Target had, so I didn’t really have a choice.\u00a0 I decided to just try a pair from Target first before dropping some major cash on a pair this way I can make sure that they are needed and that running with glasses doesn’t bother me.<\/p>\n

Today, despite a really crapola night of sleep, I got up to bust out a long run.\u00a0 I managed 10.5 miles today and I’m happy with that!\u00a0 I was tired and my right knee felt a little achy towards the end which is what convinced me to bring it home at 10.5.\u00a0 Normally I like a more rounded number of miles, so it did feel a little odd for me to stop at a half mile.\u00a0 It was really overcast this morning so no need for my glasses but I did wear them when I walked Rocky.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have to say that I do sort of feel a bit ridiculous in these glasses.\u00a0 I’m not used to wearing sunglasses that have lenses this big, so I feel like everyone is staring at me. :p\u00a0 But they work!\u00a0 The sun didn’t bother me at all and because they are so big, your entire eye area is covered which means there’s no gaps for sun or weird perspective issues to deal with.<\/p>\n

As I was reflecting on this past week’s workouts, I realized that the majority of us also need outside reasons to do our workouts.<\/strong> Yes we all want to be healthy and yes we all like doing our chosen workouts.\u00a0 But for most of us, there is also something else that motivates us that doesn’t quite fit into those categories.<\/p>\n

For me, it’s getting to see things in the early mornings that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.\u00a0 Like that gorgeous early morning sky pictured above.\u00a0 I get to see lots of bunnies and in the spring lots of baby duckies and geese.\u00a0 Today I saw a raccoon! :o\u00a0 Which was a first for me.\u00a0 Early morning sunshine and seeing the sun rise isn’t something everyone gets to see and that’s too bad because they are seriously missing out.\u00a0 The earth is a beautiful place indeed!<\/p>\n

I also really like shopping for workout clothes.\u00a0 Yes it’s an expensive hobby but I love it.\u00a0 That’s my superficial motivator.\u00a0 Workout clothes can be fun along with being functional.\u00a0 I will always gladly shop for new shorts and tops and such.\u00a0 I might not be a girly-girl but I will admit that shopping for workout gear is time well spent!<\/p>\n

You know what else I realized?\u00a0 That it’s totally okay to have outside motivators.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with having some other force that gets you out the door and moving your stuff. :)<\/p>\n

What’s your reason for working out and doing your thing? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello all my little athletes!\u00a0 How was this past week in training for you?\u00a0 Mine was alright but I think it’s time to bump it up a little bit.\u00a0 I need to get back into the habit of doing strength again and am finding that motivation lacking.\u00a0 I’m not really sure why either because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52,51],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-30u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}