Keep Showing Up.

 Week-Beginning Thoughts:

Keep showing up.

Monday
Scheduled: yoga
Did: 10min AM yoga, 4.5mi stroller walk
Had a doctor's appt for my voice loss/hoarseness where I weighed in 16lbs heavier than my "usual". While I know that about 5lbs of that was my heavy shoes and all the crap in my tote back, which was over my shoulder, it was still a WTF moment. Lots of emotions. Lots of anger. Lots of "this isn't fair". While I haven't been tracking everything I eat, I've been eating fairly well, certainly better than anyone else whose meals I see on a regular basis, and better than the average American.

It was incredibly discouraging to see that, even if I haven't "let myself go", all the feelings of my clothes getting tighter over the past few months wasn't just "in my head" or "period bloating", it's actually real, and I'm SO angry about it.

...so, I signed up for Noom, a weight-loss app that I knew some friends had had success with. And then cried. 

Tuesday
Scheduled: 10KTuesday
Did: 6.31mi @ 9:44/mi avg
Day 1 of Noom. Woke up, weighed in (a good 7lbs lighter than what I'd been at the doctor's, btw), and tracked the hell out of everything. I'm just angry that I "have to" do this if I want to be healthy. 

Wednesday

Scheduled: 5K and lifting

Did: 15min lifting, 3.2mi @ 10:04/mi avg
Did NOT want to get up and out on a "feels like 26 degrees" day, but remembered how shitty I felt with long COVID and my promise to myself to never skip a workout when I was physically able to workout.  

Thursday

Scheduled: 4-5mi

Did: 2mi WU, 4x800m/400m, CD = 5.67mi @ 9:21/mi avg

I'm enjoying the new routing of weighing myself each morning (to prove how much weight fluctuates day to day and get a "trend line" instead of a few random data points), and swapping out reading some short content Noom articles/motivation instead of scrolling social media. I'm NOT enjoying feeling like I'm depriving myself of things and trying to work on reframing that to be "I'm choosing to feel good in my body, because that's more important to me than ______". Still sucks. 

Didn't plan on speedwork, but TP had some work, so I opted in rather than just running mindless laps on the track.

4:28, 4:22, 4:18, 4:18

Friday

Scheduled: nada

Did: 30min treadmill walk

Didn't really have time to workout today. I enjoyed my one morning a week to wake up next to my husband and actually talk before our day started, worked, then got groceries and meal prepped. Noom's step tracker motivated me to get on the treadmill and walk a few miles to get around 9000 steps for the day while my family did other things in the same room. 

Saturday

Scheduled: 10-13.1mi easy

Did: 13.11mi @ 10:35/mi avg 

This was a victory lap for me. After getting COVID in April 2022 and suffering from long COVID for nearly 9 months after, there were so many times I didn't know if I'd be able to run again, especially not at the level I did pre-COVID. While I'm still not back to my pre-COVID fitness (in more ways than one), today marked a huge milestone in that slog back to "marathon mama".

My legs hurt during the run. My right foot (where I've been dealing with PF for over a month) ached a bit from time to time. It was 32 with 14mph winds that made it feel like 26 and my arms were cramping from the cold.  I planned a deceptively hilly route, unintentionally. I was much slower than my companions. 

But I did it. I ran a half marathon, something I hadn't done in over a year. So strange for something that used to be an "every weekend" occurrence to be so hard now, but that's just where I am right now... and it's a sign of progress. 

Sunday

Scheduled: easy 5K, yoga

Did: 3.12mi @ 10:13/mi avg, 15min yoga

This run felt sluggish and blergh, but I got it done.

Total Weekly Mileage: 31.4

Week-ending Thoughts:

• Slowly making it, and proud for completing a week "on the Noom wagon" :)